Production of the lantibiotic cinnamycin with genes isolated from streptomyces cinnamoneus

ABSTRACT

A 17 kb nucleic acid fragment, which confers production of the lantihiotic cinnamycin on non-producer Strepto-mycete strains, has been isolated from  Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus  DSM 40005 and characterised. Also provided are variants of the 17 kb fragment including variants in which non-essential genes are deleted and variants in which the propeptide sequence of the cinnamycin structural gene is altered, for example replaced with the propeptide sequence of similar B-type lantibiotics. Also provided are vectors, host cells and methods of lantibiotic production using the nucleic acid of the invention, and libraries of variants.

[0001] The present invention relates to materials and methods for the production of the lantibiotic cinnamycin and modified versions thereof.

[0002] Lantibiotics are peptides having antibiotic activity, produced by Gram-positive bacteria. They contain, among other modified residues, the thioether amino acids lanthionine and methyllanthionine, which cross-link the peptide chain into a polycyclic structure. They have been classified into two classes, type-A and type-B, though such classification is not unproblematic. Type-A lantibiotics are generally elongate amphiphiles that are capable of forming pores in bacterial and other plasma membranes. Examples are nisin and subtilin. Type-B lantibiotics, by contrast, are globular, conformationally defined peptides that inhibit enzyme functions. Examples are cinnamycin and duramycin.

[0003] Activities ascribed to type-B lantibiotics such as cinnamycin include antimicrobial activity (providing potential application as antibiotics), inhibition of angiotensin-converting enzyme (providing a potential application in blood pressure regulation), immunomodulation via inhibition of phospholipase A2 (providing a potential application as anti-inflammatories), and interference with prostaglandin and leucotriene biosynthesis.

[0004] Type-B lantibiotics appear to exert their activity by interfering with enzyme activities by blocking the respective substrates. For example, they have been found to inhibit biosynthesis of peptidoglycan; transglycosylation was identified as the target reaction. The substrate for this reaction is the lipid-bound cell wall precursor lipid II. While this is a target for the antibiotic vancomycin, the site of action is different and is a new target binding site not used by any current antibacterial drug.

[0005] Antibacterial activity has been observed, in particular with Bacillus strains, with effects described on membrane functions, ATP-dependent proton translocation and Ca²⁺-uptake, and on ATPases. Also, the formation of defined pores in phosphatidylethanolamine-containing planar membranes has been reported. These effects can be attributed to the specific binding of type-B lantibiotics to phosphatidylethanolamine.

[0006] Lantibiotics have been shown to have efficacy and utility as food additives and antibacterial agents against Propionibacterium acnes and problematic pathogens, e.g. methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which has or is developing resistance to many commonly used antibiotics, and Streptococcus pneumoniae.

[0007] For reviews, see Sahl and Bierbaum (1998) Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 52:41-79; Jack and Sahl (1995) TIBTECH 13:269-278; Gasson (1995) Chapter 10, Lantibiotics, in Vining and Stuttard (eds) Biotechnology Series: Genetics and Biochemistry of Antibiotic Production, Biotechnological Series 28, pages 283-306.

[0008] Accordingly, methods of producing lantibiotics, and the production of variant forms of lantibiotics (which may show improvements over native forms), are highly desirable.

[0009] The present inventors have, it is believed for the first time, cloned, sequenced and elucidated structural and regulatory information about the biosynthetic gene cluster for the type-B lantibiotic, cinnamycin, from Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005. A plasmid (pDWFT9) comprising a 17 kb DNA segment from this cluster was introduced into a Streptomycete non-producer of cinnamycin (Streptomyces lividans) and conferred the ability to produce cinnamycin. The inventors also propose a minimal set of genes which would be capable of conferring cinnamycin production, and methods for producing variant strains from cinnamycin-producing strains, which variants may produce other novel lantibiotics.

[0010] Although the biosynthetic gene cluster for another B-type lantibiotic (mersacidin) has been reported, homology between the mersacidin biosynthetic gene cluster and that reported herein occurs only in one gene (denoted herein as cinM) and is at very low levels.

[0011] The 17 kb segment is therefore sufficient to confer upon S. lividans the ability to produce cinnamycin. However, the inventors propose that the segment also comprises genes that are non-essential for this function. Apart from cinA, the cinnamycin structural gene (which has already been described in the literature), none of the other gene sequences necessary for the production of cinnamycin have previously been elucidated. Such genes are proposed herein. Moreover, the predicted gene cinR1 is the key to identifying those genes on pDWFT9 that the inventors propose to be responsible for the normal regulation of cinnamycin production.

[0012] The predicted gene cinR1 is a member of a family of transcriptional regulators call the Streptomyces antibiotic regulatory proteins (SARPs). This is the first time the production of a lantibiotic has been reported to be under the control of a SARP (notably the mersacidin gene cluster does not appear to be regulated by a SARP). This family of regulators bind to DNA at specific nucleotide sites. These sites are characterised by repeated conserved motifs of 5 or 6 or 7 bases, repeated at multiples of 11 bases (counting from the first base of each motif). The consensus sequence for the SARP binding sites in the cinnamycin and duramycin biosynthetc clusters is TGAAA (which forms part of an 11 base TGAAANNNNNN repeat unit, where N is any base). The final motif is typically followed by a −10 RNA-polymerase promoter site (the consensus sequence being TAGTGT) at some multiple of 11+5 or 6 bases (e.g. 5, 6, 16, 17, 27, 28, 38 or 39 bases). This has the effect of positioning the conserved motifs on one face of the helix and the −10 promoter site on the opposite side. Inspecting the sequence of FIG. 4 (which shows the 17 kb segment), a single site conforming to this model can be found upstream of an open reading frame designated cinorf7. The site consists of 3 pentamers of TGAAA, separated by 6 bases, followed by the potential −10 promoter sequence TAGTGT.

[0013] There are seven co-directional genes downstream of this site, designated cinorf7, cinA, cinM, cinX, CinT, cinH and cinY, that appear to form a single operon. From this, the inventors propose that they are all involved in cinnamycin production or regulation.

[0014] The cinA gene has previously been reported as the cinnamycin structural gene (Kaletta et al. (1991) Eur. J. Biochem. 199(2):411-415).

[0015] The cinM gene, by homology to known proteins, is thought to encode the protein responsible for post-translationally modifying the translation product of the cinA gene to introduce the lanthionine residues of mature cinnamycin. However, the level of homology with the equivalent gene (mrsM) in the mersacidin biosynthetic gene cluster, which is the only other B-type biosynthetic gene cluster currently known to have been determined, is very weak. The experiments reported herein show cinM to be essential for cinnamycin production.

[0016] The cinT and cinH genes are proposed to encode an ABC-cassette transporter, responsible for the export of pre-cinnamycin from the bacterial cell.

[0017] The cinX and cinY genes are proposed to be involved in the maturation of pre-cinnamycin (i.e. cleavage of the leader sequence) and/or the introduction of the non-lanthionine modifications of cinnamycin (i.e. a lysino-alanine ring and an hydroxy-aspartate residue). Specifically, cinX is proposed to be responsible for the post-translational modification of the cinnamycin propeptide by the addition of an oxygen atom to the aspartate residue to form beta-hydroxy aspartate. The experiments reported herein indicate that functional deletion of the cinX gene leads to a product having a M_(w) of 2023, compared with 2039 for cinnamycin. Interestingly, this product also shows antibacterial activity, indicating that while cinX may be necessary for cinnamycin production, it may not be essential for the production of variants having one or more activities of lantibiotics.

[0018] The cinorf8 predicted gene product is thought to comprise a CoA binding motif, and is thought to be involved in the modification of a cinnamycin intermediate by the attachment/removal of CoA to/from the aspartate residue in the procinnamycin sequence.

[0019] The cinorf7 predicted gene product may represent a separate quorum-sensing peptide responsible, in part, for the regulation of cinnamycin production. The experiments reported herein indicate that this gene is not essential for cinnamycin production. In the context of the cinnamycin biosynthetic fragment used herein, however, cinorf7 appears to be essential for high level expression of cinnamycin. This supports its putative regulatory role.

[0020] The regulation of the predicted SARP gene (cinR1) is thought to be mediated by the two-component system represented by the predicted genes cinK and cinR which may react to the product of cinorf7.

[0021] From this, it is proposed that a cassette comprising fewer genes than the 17 kb segment may also confer cinnamycin production on non-producer strains such as S. lividans.

[0022] In particular, it-is proposed that a cassette comprising the cinA, cinM, cinX, cinT, cinH, cinY genes may also confer cinnamycin production on non-producer strains.

[0023] However, as indicated above, functional deletion of the cinX gene confers production of a lantibiotic slightly different from cinnamycin. This component of the cassette may therefore be considered optional.

[0024] Such a cassette would not, it is proposed, be able to regulate cinnamycin production as in producer strains. A preferred cassette therefore also comprises the SARP binding site and the cinorf7, cinR, cinK and cinR1 genes.

[0025] Accordingly, the present invention provides in a first aspect an expression cassette comprising a cinA open reading frame (orf), a cinM orf, optionally a cinX orf, a cinT orf, a cinH orf and a cinY orf.

[0026] Such a construct represents the minimal expression cassette which may be predicted by the above model to lead to lantibiotic expression.

[0027] Preferably the orfs are provided on a single expression cassette, but it is contemplated that they may be provided separately, for example on two vectors which may be co-introduced into a desired host.

[0028] Accordingly in this first aspect, the present invention also provides a set of nucleic acids together comprising a cinA orf, a cinM orf, optionally a cinX orf, a cinT orf, a cinH orf and a cinY orf.

[0029] Preferably the set is an isolated set of nucleic acids.

[0030] Preferably the cassette or set further comprises a SARP binding site, a cinorf7 orf, a cinR orf, a cinK orf and a cinR1 orf. These are thought to regulate cinnamycin production in producer strains, to provide expression at high cell density. The SARP binding site is preferably upstream of the cinorf7 orf, which preferably forms an operon with the cinA, cinM, cinX, cinT, cinH and cinY orfs.

[0031] Preferably the expression cassette or set further comprises one or more of the following orfs, which may also be important for cinnamycin production in producer strains: cinorf3, cinorf4, smallorf, cinz, cinorf8, cinorf9, cinorf10, cinorf11, cinorf12, cinorf13 and cinorf14.

[0032] Of these, cinorf3, cinorf13 and cinorf14 in particular are thought not to be essential for cinnamycin (or other lantibiotic) production. cinorf4 and cinorf12 are also thought to be inessential.

[0033] Therefore, of the orfs listed above (namely cinorf3, cinorf4, smallorf, cinZ, cinorf8, cinorf9, cinorf10, cinorf11, cinorf12, cinorf13 and cinorf14) one or more (more preferably all) of smallorf, cinZ, cinorf8, cinorf9, cinorf10 and cinorf11 may be included in preferred embodiments of the invention. Of these, preferably cinorf8 and/or cinorfZ are particularly preferred. One or more (preferably all) of cinorf3, cinorf13 and cinorf14 may be absent from, or functionally deleted in, preferred embodiments. Similarly cinorf4 and/or (preferably and) cinorf12 may be absent from, or functionally deleted in, preferred embodiments.

[0034] Preferably the cinA orf, for example, has a nucleic acid sequence which encodes a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence which is identical to, or a variant (as further defined below) of, the amino acid sequence of naturally occurring CinA, as set out in FIG. 11.

[0035] Preferably the cinA orf has a nucleic acid sequence which is identical to, or a variant (as further defined below) of, the nucleic acid sequence of the cinA orf of the 17 kb segment, as set out in FIG. 4. As indicated in the legend for FIG. 4, the cinA orf runs from base 1671 to base 1907.

[0036] The preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis (and independently) to the other orfs referred to herein. Amino acid sequences for all orfs are given in FIGS. 7 to 27 and the nucleic acid sequence of the 17 kb segment is given in FIG. 4, the legend for which lists the bases at which each orf starts and ends.

[0037] In relation to cinA, preferred variants encode CinA variants in which one or more amino acids in the propeptide sequence of CinA is replaced with the amino acid found in the corresponding position in the propeptide sequence of another B-type lantibiotic, especially a similar B-type lantibiotic such as duramycin A, B or C or ancovenin. Combinations of replacements are also contemplated, i.e. one or more amino acids being replaced with the amino acid(s) found in the corresponding positions in the propeptide sequence of one other B-type lantibiotic, and one or more amino acids being replaced with the amino acid(s) found in the corresponding positions in the propeptide sequence of a second or further other B-type lantibiotic.

[0038] The propeptide sequence of CinA is shown below, as are the residues in duramycin A, B and C and ancovenin which differ from the propeptide sequence of cinnamycin.     5     10     15    19     ↓     ↓     ↓    ↓ Cinnamycin: CRQSC SFGPF TFVCD GNTK Duramycin A:  K Duramycin B:     L Duramycin C:  AN  Y  L  WS Ancovenin:  V     L  WS

[0039] However, the variants of cinA may (additionally or alternatively) comprise other differences to those corresponding to other known B-type lantibiotics. Again, preferred differences are in the propeptide sequence, preferably in one or more of positions 2, 3, 7, 10, 12 and 13 of the propeptide sequence (i.e. the sites which differ between cinnamycin, duramycin A, B and C and ancovenin).

[0040] The expression cassette or set will usually further comprise regulatory sequences suitable for directing transcription and translation in a host cell of the orfs present in the cassette. However, a set of nucleic acids may for example be provided without such regulatory sequences, but may be associated with regulatory sequences for expression in a host cell.

[0041] Particularly for embodiments lacking the cinR, cinK, cinR1 and/or cinorf7 orfs and/or the SARP binding site, the regulatory sequences may be heterologous to the 17 kb segment, e.g. constitutive promoters for expression in a host cell. However, in preferred embodiments which include those orfs and the SARP binding site, the regulatory sequences may be identical to or variants of those present in th 17 kb segment. In particular, the cassette or set preferably includes: a regulatory sequence upstream of the cinorf7 orf, which sequence includes the SARP binding site, or a variant thereof; a. regulatory sequence upstream of the cinK orf (when present); and a regulatory sequence upstream of the cinR1 orf (when present). The other orfs may be transcribed by readthrough from these orfs, but may require further regulatory sequences, e.g. comprising ribosome binding sites. These regulatory sequences may correspond to the intergenic sequences of the 17 kb segment (or variants).

[0042] A preferred regulatory sequence for the cinorf7 orf may comprise some or all of bases 1199 to 1266 of FIG. 4, or a variant thereof, and especially may comprise bases 1185 to 1228 of FIG. 4, or a variant thereof. The latter sequence comprises the SARP binding site and ribosome binding site present in the 17 kb segment. In an alternative or further definition, the regulatory sequences preferably comprises the consensus sequences identified herein, more preferably in substantially the same relationship to each other and the start of the cinorf7 orf as indicated herein.

[0043] A preferred regulatory sequence for the cinK orf may comprise some or all of the complement of bases 13256 to 12823 of FIG. 4, or a variant thereof.

[0044] A preferred regulatory sequence for the cinR1 orf may comprise some or all of the complement of bases 15380 to 15161 of FIG. 4, or a variant thereof.

[0045] As indicated above, it is also contemplated that other regulatory sequences may be used in conjunction with the nucleic acid sequences identified herein. For example, an expression cassette or set of nucleic acids which lacks the proposed SARP-related regulatory structures identified above (namely the SARP binding site, cinorf7, cinR, cinK and cinR1 genes) might contain genes under the control of a constitutive or inducible promoter. See e.g. Kieser et al (2000) Practical Streptomyces Genetics, The John Innes Foundation for details of such promoters.

[0046] Certain of the orfs identified herein appear to be translationally coupled, that is the stop codon of one orf overlaps with the start codon of a co-transcribed orf. It is thought that a ribosome can translate both such orfs stoichiometrically, without requiring a separate ribosome binding site for the second orf.

[0047] Preliminary results (not included herein) indicate that a cassette comprising only the cinA, cinM and cinX genes is capable of conferring low levels of cinnamycin production. It is therefore considered that a minimal cassette or set comprising only a cinA orf, a cinM orf and optionally a cinX orf will confer lantibiotic production. Such a cassette or set is also considered to be within this aspect of the invention. Preferred features are as defined above.

[0048] In a second aspect, the present invention provides a vector comprising an expression cassette according to the first aspect of the invention. Further it provides a set of vectors comprising a set of nucleic acids according to the first aspect of the invention.

[0049] Suitable vectors comprising nucleic acid for introduction into bacteria can be chosen or constructed, containing appropriate additional regulatory elements if necessary, including additional promoters, terminator fragments, enhancer elements, marker genes and other elements as appropriate. Vectors may be plasmids, viral eg Aphage@, or Aphagemid@, as appropriate. For further details see, for example, Sambrook et al (1989) Molecular Cloning, A Laboratory Manual, 2nd ed., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor. Many known techniques and protocols for manipulation of nucleic acid, for example in preparation of nucleic acid constructs, mutagenesis, sequencing, introduction of DNA into cells and gene expression, and analysis of proteins, are described in detail in Ausubel et al. (1995) Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, Wiley Interscience Publishers, (1995). Many aspects of the employment of these techniques in the context of Streptomyces spp. are described in detail in Hopwood et al (1985) Genetic manipulation of Streptomyces a laboratory manual (Norwich: John Innes Foundation) and Kieser et al (2000). The disclosures of Sambrook et al, Ausubel et al, Hopwood et al and Kieser et al are all incorporated herein by reference for these and all other purposes.

[0050] In a third aspect, the present invention provides an expression system comprising an expression cassette or set of nucleic acids according to the first aspect of the invention and an expression system comprising a vector or set of vectors according to the second aspect of the invention.

[0051] Preferably the expression system is a host cell or cell culture, although cell-free expression systems are also contemplated. Preferably the host cell or culture is bacterial, more preferably actinomycete, further preferably streptomycete, e.g. S. lividans or S. coelicolor A3(2), especially S. lividans.

[0052] The introduction of the expression cassette, set of nucleic acids or vector(s) into a host cell, which may (particularly for in vitro introduction) be generally referred to without limitation as Atransformation@, may employ any available technique. For bacterial cells, suitable techniques may include calcium chloride transformation, polyethyleneglycol assisted transformation, electroporation, conjugation and transfection or transduction using bacteriophages.

[0053] In a fourth aspect, the present invention provides a method of expressing nucleic acid of interest, the method comprising providing a host cell (or other expression system) according to the third aspect and culturing the host cell, so as to express the nucleic acid of interest.

[0054] For the avoidance of doubt, the nucleic acid of interest will be the expression cassette or set of nucleic acids of the first aspect, such that culturing the host cell will lead to the production of cinnamycin, or a variant thereof (for example deoxycinnamycin, in which the aspartate residue has not been post-translationally converted by the CinX gene product into beta-hydroxy aspartate, or the products of the expression of variant forms of cinA, with or without cinX).

[0055] Preferably the nucleic acid of interest is expressed substantially only when the host cell culture reaches high cell density, more preferably at or close to the stationary phase of host cell culture. Cell cultures at or close to stationary phase may have OD₆₅₀ values in the range of 1-20.

[0056] Known methods of culturing cells are well known in the art, for example from Sambrook et al (1989), Ausubel et al (1992), and (in particular for Streptomyces spp.) Hopwood et al (1985) and Kieser et al (2000).

[0057] The expression products of the expression systems may be collected and purified. This may be achieved by conventional methods. See for example McDaniel et al. (1993).

[0058] In a fifth aspect, therefore, the present invention provides an expression product produced according to the method of the fourth aspect of the invention.

[0059] In a sixth aspect, the present invention provides a nucleic acid molecule consisting essentially of one or more of the following orfs: cinorf3, cinorf4, smallorf, cinorf7, cinA, cinM, cinX, cinT, cinH, cinY, cinZ, cinorf8, cinorf9, cinR, cinK, cinorf10, cinorf11, cinR1, cinorf12, cinorf13 and cinorf14, optionally with a regulatory region or regulatory regions. Where present, the regulatory region(s) may comprise promoter sequence(s) for the orf(s). Where two or more orfs are present, a regulatory region for one or more of those orfs may be provided between orfs.

[0060] The orfs may be as previously defined.

[0061] In relation to cinorf3 and cinorf14, which are disclosed herein in incomplete form, the skilled person will be readily able to obtain the full length orf using known techniques.

[0062] In a seventh aspect, the present invention provides the use of one or more nucleic acid molecules as defined in the sixth aspect, in or for the production of a lantibiotic in an expression system.

[0063] In an eighth aspect, the present invention provides a polypeptide encodable by one of the following orfs: cinorf3, cinorf4, smallorf, cinorf7, cinA, cinM, cinX, cinT, cinH, cinY, cinZ, cinorf8, cinorf9, cinR, cinK, cinorf10, cinorf11, cinR1, cinorf12, cinorf13 and cinorf14. Preferably the polypeptide is substantially isolated from other proteins with which it is naturally associated.

[0064] The polypeptide preferably has an amino acid sequence as shown in one of FIGS. 7 to 27. However, this aspect also provides polypeptides which are variants of those amino acid sequences.

[0065] In a ninth aspect, the present invention provides a vector including a nucleic acid according to the sixth aspect. In embodiments in which the nucleic acid lacks a promoter or promoters for the orf(s) it contains, the vector preferably includes a promoter in operative association with the orf(s).

[0066] In a tenth aspect, the present invention provides an expression system containing one or more nucleic acids according to the sixth aspect and an expression system containing a vector according to the ninth aspect.

[0067] Preferably the expression system is a cell. Any appropriate cell may be used (e.g. a standard E. coli overexpression system). See for example Sambrook et al (1989) and Ausubel et al (1992). However, bacterial, actinomycete and streptomycete cells are preferred as previously indicated.

[0068] In an eleventh aspect, the present invention provides a method of producing a polypeptide according to the eighth aspect, the method comprising producing the polypeptide in an expression system according to the tenth aspect.

[0069] The polypeptide may be purified from the expression system by conventional methods.

[0070] As has been demonstrated previously (Sahl and Bierbaum 1998), the proteins which are involved in post-translational processing and modification of lantibiotics (e.g. to introduce lanthionine and/or methyllanthionine residues) may be used in vitro to modify other proteins (especially other lantibiotics). See for example the reviews cited in the introduction and references cited therein. It is proposed that such use may be made of one or more of the polypeptides above, especially CinM, CinX and/or CinY. Indeed, in the experiments described herein, the cinA gene on the pDWFT9 plasmid was modified to encode a polypeptide having the propeptide sequence of duramycin A or B instead of cinnamycin structural gene. This still led to an antibacterially active product, indicating that post-translational modification was occurring despite the change in propeptide sequence.

[0071] The inventors also propose that the materials and methods of the present invention be modified, e.g. to produce variant forms of cinnamycin and/or to affect the production of cinnamycin or variants. In particular, it is contemplated that the mutation of one or more orfs or regulatory sequences of the 17 kb segment may lead to changes of this sort. For example, non-silent mutations in the cinA orf will produce changes in the amino acid sequence encoded by the orf, which changes may lead to a variant form of cinnamycin having one or more different properties compared to naturally occurring cinnamycin. Such modification has been demonstrated herein and is particularly preferred. Similarly, mutations of the orfs encoding proteins thought to be responsible for the post-translational modification of the primary transcript of cinA may lead to different post-translational modifications. Mutation of the regulatory sequences may lead to differences in the control of cinnamycin (or variant) production. Such modified materials and methods are also included within the scope of the preceding aspects.

[0072] Mutagenesis may be performed using available methods e.g. chemical mutagenesis, alanine-scanning mutagenesis, site-directed mutagenesis using oligonucleotides, error-prone PCR or by propagating target nucleic acid in an appropriate plasmid in a mutator strain, e.g. the XL1-Red strain of E. coli (Stratagene). The protocol for this procedure is described in Greener and Callahan (1993) Strategies 6, 32-34. Mutagenesis may be carried out on a particular orf or group of orfs (or regulatory seqence(s)), which is then cloned back into a nucleic acid containing unmutated sequence, or the entire nucleic acid of interest (e.g. the 17 kb segment) may be subjected to mutagenesis.

[0073] In particular, the methods and materials of the present invention, relating to the cinnamycin biosynthetic cluster, may be used in conjunction with material derived from other lantibiotic-producing strains, e.g. to expose primary translation products of other lantibiotics (such as other B-type lantibiotics, e.g. duramycin) to the post-translational modification enzymes of the present invention or vice versa. This could be done in vitro, using the translation products, or in vivo, e.g. by introducing the structural gene for another lantibiotic into a host cell having other genes of the cinnamycin biosynthetic pathway.

[0074] In a further aspect, the present invention provides a method for producing a library of lantibiotic-producing host cells, the method comprising:

[0075] providing a plurality of host cells respectively transformed with different nucleic acids, sets of nucleic acids, vectors or sets of vectors as defined in the first or second aspects.

[0076] Preferably at least some of the nucleic acids, sets of nucleic acids, vectors or sets of vectors differ in the propeptide-encoding region of cinA. However, other mutations are contemplated.

[0077] In this aspect, there is also provided such a library of lantibiotic-producing host cells, preferably produced or producible according to the method of this aspect.

[0078] Such a library may be screened for desirable properties. Preferably it is initially screened for lantibiotic production (e.g. by determining the effect on B. subtilis growth), and then screened for interesting and/or advantageous mutations. The library may be limited, e.g. following such an initial screening step, to host cells which display lantibiotic production.

[0079] In a further aspect, the invention provides a method of producing a library of lantibiotics, the method comprising:

[0080] providing a library of lantibiotic-producing host cells according to the previous aspect; and

[0081] culturing said host cells under conditions suitable for lantibiotic production.

[0082] The method may include one or more steps of purifying the lantibiotics thus produced.

[0083] This aspect also provides such a library of lantibiotics, preferably produced or producible according to the method of this aspect.

[0084] Another aspect of the invention pertains to a composition comprising a lantibiotic produced or producible as provided above and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent.

[0085] Another aspect of the invention pertains to a lantibiotic produced or producible as provided above for use in a method of treatment of the human or animal body.

[0086] Another aspect of the invention pertains to a method of treatment, in vitro or in vivo, comprising contacting a cell with an effective amount of a lantibiotic produced or producible as provided above.

[0087] References herein to orfs, genes, coding regions and nucleic acids are not to be interpreted as being restricted to orfs, genes, coding regions and nucleic acids having the specific nucleic acid sequences disclosed herein. Rather, genes, coding regions and nucleic acids having variants of those sequences are also included. Genes, coding regions and nucleic acids having such specific sequences are preferred embodiments. Thus, for example, a reference to Aa cinA orf @ is not to be interpreted as being restricted to an orf having the sequence from residue 1671 to 1907 of FIG. 4, but also includes variants.

[0088] Similarly, references herein to polypeptides are not to be interpreted as being restricted to polypeptides having the specific amino acid sequences disclosed herein. Rather, polypeptides having variants of those sequences are also included. Polypeptides having such specific sequences are preferred embodiments. Thus, for example, a reference to Aa CinA polypeptide@ is not to be interpreted as being restricted to a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence shown in FIG. 11, but also includes variants.

[0089] References herein to promoters are not to be interpreted as being restricted to nucleic acids having the sequence of all or part of a specific intergenic region disclosed herein. Again, promoters having variants of those intergenic sequences are also included and the specific intergenic sequences (or parts thereof) are preferred embodiments.

[0090] In all cases, where a preferred embodiment of an orf, gene, nucleic acid, polypeptide or promoter is defined by reference to a specific sequence, the invention in its broader sense is intended to include embodiments having variants of that specific sequence. Nevertheless, the specific sequences disclosed herein represent preferred embodiments.

[0091] The term Avariant@ as used herein in relation to a particular nucleic acid (the reference nucleic acid) denotes: any nucleic acid having a sequence which is different from that of the reference nucleic acid, but which is its complement or which shows significant nucleic acid sequence identity with, or hybridisation under stringent conditions to, the reference nucleic acid or its complement or a fragment of the reference nucleic acid or its complement; or any nucleic acid which encodes an amino acid sequence having significant amino acid sequence identity with the amino acid sequence encoded by the reference nucleic acid, or a fragment of that nucleic acid. The term Avariant@ also refers to nucleic acids which differ from each other due only to the degeneracy of the genetic code, and which therefore encode identical deduced amino acid sequences.

[0092] The term Avariant@ as used herein in relation to a particular polypeptide (the reference polypeptide) denotes: any polypeptide having an amino acid sequence which is different from, but which shows significant amino acid sequence identity with, the amino acid sequence of the reference polypeptide, or a fragment of that polypeptide.

[0093] Variant nucleic acids of the invention are further defined as follows. If a variant nucleic acid of the invention is introduced into the 17 kb nucleic acid fragment identified herein in place of the sequence of which it is a variant, and the recombinant fragment is introduced into a suitable host cell under suitable conditions for lantibiotic production (e.g. as shown in the Examples), then production of a molecule having one or more activities of a lantibiotic (especially antibiotic activity) will result. Preferably production will be regulated to occur at high cell density.

[0094] Unless otherwise specified, significant amino acid sequence identity is preferably at least 80%, more preferably 85%, 90% or 95%, still more preferably 98% or 99% and/or significant nucleic acid sequence identity is preferably at least 50%, more preferably 60%, 70%, 80% or 90%, still more preferably 95%, 98% or 99%.

[0095] Significant amino acid sequence identity is preferably shown between the variant polypeptide (or a portion thereof) and a fragment of at least 10 amino acids of the reference polypeptide, more preferably a fragment of a least 20, 30 or 40 amino acids, still more preferably a fragment of 60, 80 or 100 amino acids, more preferably the entire reference polypeptide.

[0096] Significant nucleic acid sequence identity is preferably shown between the variant nucleic acid (or a portion thereof) and a fragment of at least 30 residues of the reference nucleic acid, more preferably a fragment of a least 60, 90 or 120 residues, still more preferably a fragment of 180, 240 or 300 residues, more preferably the entire reference nucleic acid.

[0097] APercent (%) amino acid sequence identity” is defined as the percentage of amino acid residues in a candidate sequence that are identical with the amino acid residues in the sequence with which it is being compared, after aligning the sequences and introducing gaps, if necessary, to achieve the maximum percent sequence identity, and not considering any conservative substitutions as part of the sequence identity. The % identity values used herein are generated by WU-BLAST-2 which was obtained from Altschul et al. (1996); http://blast.wustl/edu/blast/README.html. WU-BLAST-2 uses several search parameters, most of which are set to the default values. The adjustable parameters are set with the following values: overlap span=1, overlap fraction=0.125, word threshold (T)=11. The HSPS and HSPS2 parameters are dynamic values and are established by the program itself depending upon the composition of the particular sequence and composition of the particular database against which the sequence of interest is being searched; however, the values may be adjusted to increase sensitivity. A % amino acid sequence identity value is determined by the number of matching identical residues divided by the total number of residues of the “longer” sequence in the aligned region, multiplied by 100. The “longer” sequence is the one having the most actual residues in the aligned region (gaps introduced by WUBLAST-2 to maximize the alignment score are ignored).

[0098] “Percent (%) nucleic acid sequence identity” is defined as the percentage of nucleotide residues in a candidate sequence that are identical with the nucleotide residues in the sequence under comparison. The identity values used herein were generated by the BLASTN module of WU BLAST-2 set to the default parameters, with overlap span and overlap fraction set to 1 and 0.125, respectively.

[0099] In relation to variants of the promoters used in the present invention, nucleic acid sequence identity is preferably assessed over a sequence of at least 30 residues, more preferably 40 or 50 residues, still more preferably 60 residues.

[0100] “Stringent conditions” or “high stringency conditions”, as defined herein, may be identified by those that: (1) employ low ionic strength and high temperature for washing, for example 0.015 M sodium chloride/0.0015 M sodium citrate/0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate at 50□C; (2) employ during hybridization a denaturing agent, such as formamide, for example, 50% (v/v) formamide with 0.1% bovine serum albumin/0.1% Ficoll/0.1% polyvinylpyrrolidone/50 mM sodium phosphate buffer at pH 6.5 with 750 mM sodium chloride, 75 mM sodium citrate at 42□C; or (3) employ 50% formamide, 5×SSC (0.75 M NaCl, 0.075 M sodium citrate), 50 mM sodium phosphate (pH 6.8), 0.1% sodium pyrophosphate, 5×Denhardt's solution, sonicated salmon sperm DNA (50 μg/ml), 0.1% SDS, and 10% dextran sulfate at 42□C, with washes at 42□C in 0.2×SSC (sodium chloride/sodium citrate) and 50% formamide at 55□C, followed by a high-stringency wash consisting of 0.1×SSC containing EDTA at 55□C.

[0101] When a nucleic acid of interest is in Aoperative association@ with a promoter or regulatory sequence, the promoter/regulatory sequence is able to direct transcription of the nucleic acid of interest in an appropriate expression system, with the nucleic acid of interest in the correct reading frame for translation. Preferably when a nucleic acid of interest is in operative association with a promoter/regulatory sequence, the transcript of the nucleic acid of interest contains an appropriately located ribosome binding site for expression in an appropriate expression system of the polypeptide encoded by the nucleic acid of interest. See for example Sambrook et al. (1989) and Ausubel et al. (1995).

[0102] When a nucleic acid is referred to as “isolated”, this may mean substantially or completely isolated from some or all other nucleic acid normally present in Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM40005, especially nucleic acid from outside the 17 kb segment identified herein. However, the use of for example a Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM40005 regulatory sequence with an otherwise isolated nucleic acid is not to be regarded as prevented such nucleic acid from being deemed “isolated”. When a polypeptide is referred to as “isolated”, this may mean substantially or completely isolated from some or all polypeptides normally expressed by Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM40005, especially polypeptides encoded by nucleic acid from outside the 17 kb segment identified herein.

[0103] Formulations

[0104] The lantibiotics of the present invention may be formulated together with one or more other pharmaceutically acceptable ingredients well known to those skilled in the art, including, but not limited to, pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, adjuvants, excipients, diluents, fillers, buffers, preservatives, anti-oxidants, lubricants, stabilisers, solubilisers, surfactants (e.g.; wetting agents), masking agents, colouring agents, flavouring agents, and sweetening agents. The formulation may further comprise other active agents, for example, other therapeutic or prophylactic agents.

[0105] Thus, the present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions, as defined above, and methods of making a pharmaceutical composition comprising admixing at least one active compound, as defined above, together with one or more other pharmaceutically acceptable ingredients well known to those skilled in the art, e.g., carriers, adjuvants, excipients, etc. If formulated as discrete units (e.g., tablets, etc.), each unit contains a predetermined amount (dosage) of the active compound.

[0106] The term “pharmaceutically acceptable” as used herein. pertains to compounds, ingredients, materials, compositions, dosage forms, etc., which are, within the scope of sound medical judgement, suitable for use in contact with the tissues of the subject in question (e.g., human) without excessive toxicity, irritation, allergic response, or other problem or complication, commensurate with a reasonable benefit/risk ratio. Each carrier, adjuvant, excipient, etc. must also be “acceptable” in the sense of being compatible with the other ingredients of the formulation.

[0107] Suitable carriers, adjuvants, excipients, etc. can be found in standard pharmaceutical texts, for example, Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences, 18th edition, Mack Publishing Company, Easton, Pa., 1990; and Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients, 2nd edition, 1994.

[0108] The experimental basis of the present invention will now be described in detail, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

[0109]FIG. 1 shows the DNA sequence of probe CK. In this figure and elsewhere, the base N may represent A, C, G or T (or U for RNA).

[0110]FIG. 2 shows the DNA sequence of pDWCC1. The primers BB3 and BB4 are marked in bold and labelled.

[0111]FIG. 3 shows the DNA sequence of probe BB.

[0112]FIG. 4 shows the sequence of the cinnamycin cluster from Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus 40005 as present on the plasmid pDWFT9. The probable SARP binding site is indicated in bold and the probable −10 promoter site is indicated in bold italics. Open reading frames in the sequence are as follows (the numbers represent the first and last base pairs): cinorf3=complement (346..1) (NB as this is an incomplete orf, the end of the sequence is not a stop codon); cinorf4=454..1026; smallorf=1109..1198; cinorf7=1267..1626; cinA=1671..1907; cinM=2059..5325; cinX=5340..6317; cinT=6543..7472; cinH=7469..8341; cinY=8444..9466; cinZ=complement (10171 ..9545); cinorfB=10246..10665; cinorf9=10758..11078; cinR=complement (11761..11111); cinK=complement (12822 ..11758); cinorf10=13257..13754; cinorf11=13754 ..14944; cinR1=complement (15160..14375); cinorf12=15381..15872; cinorf13=15912..16496; cinorf14=16549. .17083 (NB as this is an incomplete orf, the end of the sequence is not a stop codon).

[0113]FIG. 5 shows the order and orientation of the putative genes of the cinnamycin cluster of Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus 40005 and also represents all of the Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus 40005 DNA inserted into pOJ436 to give pDWFT9. The putative genes represented in this diagram as capital letters are prefixed in the text as cin whilst those with numbers are prefixed as cinorf. Restriction sites cut by enzymes used in the cloning process are marked along with the first base-pair position of the relevent recognition site in the sequence given in FIG. 4. This is a schematic diagram and not to scale.

[0114]FIG. 6 shows the DNA sequence of probe 1.1.

[0115]FIG. 7 shows the deduced amino acid sequence encoded by cinorf3. This is an incomplete orf. The MW is shown.

[0116] FIGS. 8 to 26 respectively show the deduced amino acid sequences encoded by each of the orfs from cinorf4 on the left hand side of FIG. 5 to cinorf13 on the right hand side of FIG. 5. The MWs are listed.

[0117]FIG. 27 shows the deduced amino acid sequence encoded by cinorf14. This is an incomplete orf. The MW is listed.

[0118]FIG. 28 shows the DNA sequence of pCK51.

[0119]FIG. 29 shows the DNA sequence of the tetracycline resistance cassette of pDWFT33.

EXAMPLE 1 The Cloning of the Cinnamycin Cluster of Streptomyces Cinnamoneus Cinnamoneus DSM 40005

[0120] Materials

[0121] Plasmid pCK51 (Kaletta C et al (1991) Eur. J. Biochem 199(2): 411 - 415) carrying the structural gene for cinnamycin (cinA) along with sequence data for this plasmid was obtained from Dr Torsten Helge Stein of the Institut fur Mikrobiologie, der Johann Wolgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Biozentrum Niederursel, Marie-Curie-Straβe 9, D-60439 Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

[0122]Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus strains DSM 40646 and DSM 40005 (duramycin and cinnamycin producers respectively) were obtained from the German Collection of Microorgansims, DSM.

[0123]Streptomyces lividans 1326 and Escherichia coli DH5α are common laboratory strains.

[0124] Methods

[0125] Cloning of the genes for cinnamycin production

[0126] An approximately 2.8 kb NdeI (see FIG. 28 cut site 2033CA↓TATG)/BamHI (see FIG. 28 cut site 4844G↓GATCC) restriction fragment was isolated from pCK51 by agarose gel electrophoresis using the Qiagen gel extraction kit. This restriction fragment lies downstream of cinA and carries the 5′ part of a putative lanM type gene that encodes a protein thought to be involved in the production of lanthionine residues. The restriction fragment was then used to produce a radio-labelled probe (Pharmacia Oligolabelling Kit), probe-CK (see FIG. 1), for use in Southern analysis and colony hybridisations.

[0127] Genomic DNA was isolated from Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus 40646 and cut with a series of restriction endonucleases (Asp7l8, BamHI, BglII ,SacI, SalI ,XhoI, and PstI) before being subject to Southern analysis using probe-CK. An approximately 5 kb BglII restriction fragment was obtained that was selected for cloning. Genomic DNA digested with BglII and fragments of about 5 kb in size were isolated by agarose gel electrophoresis and ligated into BamHI cut pBluescriptII KS (Stratagene). The resulting ligation mixture was transformed into E. coli DH5α to form a mini-library of BglII fragments of about 5 kb. A clone, pDWCC1 (see FIG. 2), carrying the BglII fragment detected by Southern analysis was isolated from this library by colony hybridisation using probe-CK. Sequencing of pDWCC1 revealed the isolated BglII fragment to be 4943bp long with one end encoding the 3′ end of a lanM type gene corresponding to probe-CK.

[0128] Sequence information from pDWCC1 was used to design a probe to the lanM type gene and used in the screening of Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 genomic DNA. A DNA fragment was prepared by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using Taq polymerase. The primers used were BB3 (=5′-GCC TAC GAG GAC CGG TAC GTC G-3′, in bold in FIG. 2 start 1050 stop 1071) and BB4 (=5′-GGC GAA GCG CAG GAA GAG CTC G-3′, complement in bold in FIG. 2 start 1343 stop 1322) and a fragment of 294 bp in length was produced. This PCR fragment was used to produce a radiolabelled probe, probe-BB (see FIG. 3) and used in Southern analysis and colony hybridisation.

[0129] Genomic DNA was isolated from Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 and cut with a series of restriction endonucleases (BamHI, BglII, SacI, SalI, Xhol, and PstI) before being subject to Southern analysis using probe-BB. An approximately 5 kb BglII restriction fragment was obtained that was selected for cloning. Genomic DNA was digested with BglII and fragments of about 5 kb were isolated by agarose gel electrophoresis and ligated into BamHI cut pBluescriptII KS (Stratagene). The ligation mixture was transformed into E. coli DH5α to form a mini-library of BglII fragments of about 5 kb. Two clones, pDWFT1 and pDWFT2 (the sequences of which correspond to that starting at position 3756 and stopping at position 8734 of FIG. 4) carrying the BglII fragment detected by Southern analysis were isolated from this library by colony hybridisation using probe-BB. These two plasmids were subsequently shown to contain identical inserts in opposite orientations by sequencing with pBluescriptII KS reverse primer (Stratagene). Sequencing of pDWFT1 revealed the isolated BglII fragment to be 4979bp long (see FIG. 4 and 5) with one end encoding the 3′ part of a lanM type gene corresponding to probe-BB. Computer analysis of the sequence data for pDWCC1 and pDWFT1 revealed the two BglII fragments to be 88.8% identical along the entire lengths of both fragments. Subsequently an approximately 5 kb BamHI fragment, which was also detected by Southern analysis using probe-BB, was cloned in a similar procedure to give pDWFT4 (the sequence of which corresponds to that starting at position 1 and stopping at position 4872 of FIG. 4).

[0130] Sequencing of pDWFT4 revealed the BamHI fragment to be 4872 bp in length (see FIG. 4 and 5) and carries the 5′ end of the lanM type gene and cinA. Comparison of the sequence data for the BamHI fragments of pDWFT4 and the sequence data provided for pCK51 showed the two fragments to be 97.3% identical along the entire lengths of both fragments.

[0131] A PstI fragment of approximately 1.1 Kb from the end of the BglII fragment of pDWFT2 distal to the end carrying the lanM type gene was isolated by agarose gel electrophoresis (This corresponds to the region starting at position 7612 and stopping at position 8734 of the sequence shown in FIG. 4 plus a short length of the pBluescriptII KS poly-linker (see FIG. 6)). This fragment was then used to prepare a radiolabelled probe, probe-1.1 (see FIG. 6) for use in Southern analysis and colony hybridisations. Using probe-1.1 an approximately 11 kb Asp718 fragment from Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 genomic DNA was obtained by Southern analysis. This fragment was then isolated and cloned using probe-1.1 in a procedure similar to that described for pDWCC1 to give pDWFT5 (The sequence of which corresponds to the region starting at position 5423 and stopping at position 17083). Sequencing of this plasmid revealed it to be 11661bp in length with a 3312bp overlap with pDWFT1 (see FIG. 4 and 5 ).

[0132] The cloned fragments from pDWFT1, pDWFT4 and pDWFT5 were then cloned together to give a single piece of DNA, pDWFT9 (see FIG. 4 and 5), with the various parts in the same order and orientations as in the Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 chromosome. Analysis of the sequence data (using the Wisconsin GCG package Version 10.1-Unix: gap creation penalty 50; gap extension penalty 3) for these three plasmids shows that they cover a single 17083 bp region of the Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 genome. The sequence data revealed that there were only two Asp718 sites (GGTACC) within this region. One of these sites is within the region covered by pDWFT1 and corresponds to one end of the Asp718 fragment of pDWFT5 whilst the other is at the other end of the region covered by pDWFT5. The region of pDWFT1 not overlapped by either pDWFT4 or pDWFT5 corresponds to a single 562bp long BamHI/Asp718 fragment. The BamHI fragment of pDWFT4 was ligated together with the 562bp BamHI/Asp718 fragment of pDWFT1 to restore one end of the cluster to the wild type conformation. Subsequently the Asp718 fragment of pDWFT5 was ligated to this to restore the whole cluster to the wild type conformation.

[0133] The first step in this process was to clone the 562bp BamHI (see FIG. 4 cut site 4867G↓GATCC) /Asp718 (see FIG. 4 cut site 5423G↓GTACC) fragment from pDWFT1 into pBluescriptII KS cut with BamHI/Asp718 to give pDWFT6. The cloned 5 kb BamHI fragment from pDWFT4 (see FIG. 4 cut sites 1G↓GATCC and 4867G↓GATCC) was then cloned into BamHI cut pDWFT6 to give pDWFT7. The orientation of the fragments in pDWFT7 was checked by restriction analysis using standard procedures (Sambrooke J et al (1989) Molecular Cloning; A Laboratory Manual, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Chapter 1 and Chapter 6) to ensure that it conformed to the native conformation. This BamHI/BamHI/Asp718 fragment was then cut from pDWFT7 on a single Asp718/XbaI fragment (the sequence of which corresponds to the region starting at position 1 and stopping at position 5428 plus a short region of pBluescriptII KS poly-linker) and cloned into pQJ436 (Bierman M et al (1992) Gene 116, pp43-49) to give pDWFT8. The Asp718 fragment from pDWFT5 (see FIG. 4 cut sites 5423G↓GTACC and 17078G↓GTACC) was cloned into pDWFT8 cut with Asp718 to give pDWFT9. The orientation of the fragments was checked by restriction analysis with BglII to ensure that the fragment corresponding to the BglII fragment of pDWFT1 had been restored. This plasmid pDWFT9 is composed of 17083bp of DNA corresponding exactly to the sequence of the Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 chromosome, plus a small region of pBluescriptII KS poly-linker, cloned into pOJ436.

[0134]Streptomyces lividans 1326 was then transformed with pDWFT9 and also the basic vector pOJ436 to produce test and control strains, respectively. Those strains possessing pDWFT9 were labelled S. lividans DW9a-1-8 and those possessing pOJ436 were labelled S. lividans DW436-1-4.

[0135] Bioassays for Cinnamycin Production

[0136] The strains tested, DW9a1-8 and DW436-1-4, were grown for 5-7 days on R2YE medium (Practical Streptomyces Genetics (2000) Kieser T. et al The John Innes Foundation p.408). An over-night culture of B. subtilis was used to inoculate a 10 ml LB media culture which was grown until its OD=0.3-0.4 (600 nm) (between 5-8 hours). A 0.5 ml aliquot of this culture was then used to inoculate 5 ml of soft Oxoid nutrient agar at 55° C. which was mixed by inversion and then poured immediately over the plate to be assayed. The plate was tilted until an even covering of the B. subtilis overlay was achieved. The assay plate was then grown at 37° C. over-night after which it was checked for inhibition of the growth of B. subtilis.

[0137] Detection of Cinnamycin by Mass Spectrometry

[0138] Streptomyces lividans strains were grown for 5-7 days in either YEME or TSB medium (Practical Streptomyces supra) after which the cells were removed by centrifugation. The supernatant was then extracted twice with an equal volume of ethyl acetate with the aqueous fraction being retained both times. The aqueous fraction was extracted twice with butanol equilibrated with water, with the butanol fraction being retained and both fractions being pooled. The butanol was then extracted with either 10× or 2× volumes of 10% formic acid which was subsequently used for analysis on a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer.

[0139] Results

[0140] Bioassays for Cinnamycin Production

[0141] The results in Table 1 show that S. cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 inhibits the growth of B. subtilis and that strains of S. lividans which carry the vector pOJ436 upon which pDWFT9 is based, but which do not carry the putative cinnamycin cluster, do not show any inhibition of the growth of B. subtilis. Strains of S. lividans carrying the plasmid pDWFT9, which encodes the putative cinnamycin cluster from S. cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 inhibit the growth of B. subtilis. Since S. cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 inhibits the growth of B. subtilis and a known activity of cinnamycin is the inhibition of the growth of the B. subtilis strains this result provides evidence that the S. lividans strains carrying the putative cinnamycin cluster, carried on pDWFT9, are producing cinnamycin.

[0142] Detection of Cinnamycin by Mass Spectrometry

[0143] The results in Table 2 show that molecules with molecular weights similar to cinnamycin (2039.4 as calculated from propeptide sequence data and structural data) were present in the supernatants of liquid cultures of Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 and S. lividans DW9a-1, the strain carrying the carrying the putative cinnamycin cluster on plasmid pDWFT9. No molecules with this molecular weight were detected in supernatants of liquid cultures of S. lividans DW436-4 which carries pOJ436, the vector upon which pDWFT9 is based but without the cinnamycin cluster. This is taken as evidence that S. lividans DW9a-1 which carries the putative cinnamycin cluster is producing cinnamycin.

[0144] Analysis of the Sequence of the Cinnamycin Cluster of Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005

[0145] The plasmid pDWFT9 possesses the Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 cinnamycin cluster genes that are vital for the expression of cinnamycin in S. lividans. The sequence data for this plasmid is represented in FIG. 4 which, together with its legend, also lists the putative genes, and the positions of these genes, along with other vital features encoded within this sequence. The positions of these genes were determined by using the frameplot program (accepting the default values) and, when there was more than one available start codon, looking for a potential ribosome binding site (Shine Dalgarno sequence) taking the sequence GGAGG as the ideal (Practical Streptomyces Genetics (2000) Kieser T. et al The John Innes Foundation p.386). The order and relative orientation of the putative genes is shown in the diagram FIG. 5. The frameplot program is publicly available on the web at http://watson.nih.go.jp˜jun/cgi-bin/frameplot.pl (Ishikawa, J. and Hotta, K. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 174:251-253 (1999)). There are 21 potential genes in this sequence which potentially represent real genes and are discussed individually below starting at the beginning of the sequence and going through in the order that they occur. The database search program Blast P, based at the NCBI, was used to look for similarities between the protein translations of the potential genes given here and those in the publicly available database using the version of Blast available at the provided web page.

[0146] cinorf3 (FIG. 7). Incomplete predicted gene with the 3′ end being truncated.

[0147] cinorf4 (FIG. 8) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has no homology with any gene product of known function.

[0148] smallorf (FIG. 9) This motif starts at residue 1109 and ends at residue 1198 of FIG. 1.

[0149] cinorf7 (FIG. 10) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has no homology to any gene product of known function.

[0150] cinA (FIG. 11) This is the cinnamycin structural gene. The protein translation product has 100% identity with the gene product of the published cinA gene (Kaletta C et al (1991) Eur. J. Biochem 199(2): 411 - 415).

[0151] cinM (FIG. 12) The protein translation product of this predicted gene is thought to be a modifying enzyme.

[0152] cinX (FIG. 13) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has no homology to any gene product of known function.

[0153] cinT (FIG. 14) The protein translation product of this predicted gene appears to be translationally coupled to the translation product of the predicted cinH gene.

[0154] cinH (FIG. 15) The protein translation product of this predicted gene appears to be translationally coupled to the translation product of the predicted cinT gene.

[0155] cinY (FIG. 16) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has no homology to any gene product of known function.

[0156] cinZ (FIG. 17) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has 40% homology over its entire length with the C-terminal third of the PepQ protein from E. coli (embl locus ECPEPQ, accession X54687.1).

[0157] cinorf8 (FIG. 18) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has greater than 47% identity over its full length with a protein from E. coli (pir: locus D64837).

[0158] cinorf9 (FIG. 19) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has no homology to any gene product of known function.

[0159] cinR (FIG. 20) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has homology over its full length with many putative response regulators from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). For example, a hit using Blast P (available from the NCBI website at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov; word size: 3; matrix: blosum 62; gap costs: existence:11, extension: 1) recorded 48% identity over the entire length of the putative CinR protein. This correlates with the AbsA2-protein which is thought to be involved in global negative regulation of Streptomyces coelicolor antibiotic synthesis (Brian,P., Riggle,P. J., Santos,R. A. and Champness,W. C. J. Bacteriol. 178 (11), 3221-3231 (1996)). This predicted gene appears to be translationally coupled to the predicted cinK gene.

[0160] cinK (FIG. 21) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has homology over its entire length with many putative histidine kinases from Streptomyces coelicolor A3 (2). For example, a hit using Blast P (default parameters) recorded 34% identity over the entire length of the putative CinK protein. This correlates with the AbsA1 protein which is thought to be involved in global negative regulation of Streptomyces coelicolor antibiotic synthesis (Brian,P., Riggle,P. J., Santos,R. A. and Champness,W. C. J. Bacteriol. 178 (11), 3221-3231 (1996)). This predicted gene appears to be translationally coupled to the predicted cinR gene.

[0161] cinorf10 (FIG. 22) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has no homology to any gene product of known function. This predicted gene may be translationally coupled to the predicted cinorf11 gene.

[0162] cinorf11 (FIG. 23) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has no homology to any gene product of known function. This predicted gene may be translationally coupled to the predicted cinorf10 gene.

[0163] cinR1 (FIG. 24) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has 38% identity along its entire length to the N-terminal region of the AfsR-g protein from Streptomyces griseus (Umeyama,T., Lee,P. C., Ueda,K. and Horinouchi,S. Microbiology 145 (Pt 9), 2281-2292,(1999)) and 38% identity along its entire length to the N-terminal region of the AfsR-g protein from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) (Horinouchi,S., Kito,M., Nishiyama,M., Furuya,K., Hong,S. K., Miyake,K. and Beppu,T. Gene 95 (1), 49-56 (1990)).

[0164] cinorf12 (FIG. 25) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has no homology to any gene product of known function.

[0165] cinorf13 (FIG. 26) The protein translation product of this predicted gene has no homology to any gene product of known function.

[0166] cinorf14 (FIG. 27) This is not a complete potential gene with the 3′ end being truncated. The protein translation product of this predicted gene has no homology to any gene product of known function.

EXAMPLE 2 Construction of a Plasmid Tool for the Production of Artificial Variants of Cinnamycin.

[0167] By the introduction of new restriction sites within and downstream of the cinnamycin structural gene, cinA, it was possible to generate a replaceable cassette which enabled the cinnamycin production process to be harnessed for the production of variants.

[0168] The cinA structural gene was encoded on the plasmid pDWFT4 which possesses a 4872bp BamHI fragment derived from the Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 chromosome. Within the BamHI fragment are two unique restriction sites XhoI (see FIG. 4 cut site 1728C↓TCGAG) and NdeI (see FIG. 4 cut site 2056CA↓TATG). The XhoI site lies within the leader peptide encoding region of cinA and the NdeI site lies downstream of the cinA gene. These two sites form a convenient cassette which is replaced by a similar region that is generated by PCR with oligonucleotides incorporating changes to the native sequence so that new restriction sites are made. These new sites are placed either side of the propeptide region of cinA enabling the native propetide encoding region to be removed and replaced with double stranded oligonucleotides encoding propeptides of choice.

[0169] The new restriction sites that have been incorporated are StuI and SpeI. These sites were chosen because there are no StuI or SpeI sites present in the plasmid pDWFT9, described above. This presents an opportunity to construct libraries of variant propeptide regions in this plasmid by replacing the propeptide region with double stranded oligonucleotides that are redundant at specified positions. The restriction site StuI was selected because it can be incorporated without altering the encoded CinA peptide. An A1838G substitution of the pDWFT4 BamHI fragment introduces a StuI site, exchanging the GAA codon for a GAG codon (both of which code for glutamate residues). This site is four codons upstream of the first propeptide codon and enable the whole propeptide region to be exchanged. The SpeI site was to be incorporated by making three changes immediately downstream of the cinA stop codon. These changes were G1908C, G1910A and C1912T of the pDWFT4 BamHI fragment. However, the introduction of these changes also incorporated a spontaneous change in the sequence (see below).

[0170] The above plan was executed in the following manner. The 4872bp BamHI fragment of pDWFT4 was subcloned into a vector that does not possess any XhoI, StuI, SpeI or NdeI sites: The plasmid pBlueScriptIIks does not possess either a StuI or a NdeI site but does have XhoI and SpeI sites. The XhoI and SpeI sites of pBluescriptII KS are unique and positioned in the poly-linker region of the plasmid and can be destroyed by cutting with XhoI and end-filling with Klenow fragment polymerase, followed by ligation and isolation of the modified plasmid to give plasmid pNOX. The process is then repeated on pNOX with SpeI to give pNOXS. The plasmid pNOXS was then cut with BamHI and the 4872bp BamHI fragment of pDWFT4 cloned into it to yielding pDWFT17.

[0171] Oligonucleotide primer pairs were made which introduced sequence changes producing either the StuI or the SpeI sites described above. These primers were:

[0172] FTP25=5′-CTT CGT GTG CGA CGG CAA CAC C-3′ homology with the pDWFT4 BamHI fragment starts at position 1880 and stops at position 1901 of FIG. 4

[0173] Spe1=5′-GCA GCA ACT AGT TAC TTG GTG TTG CCG TCG-3′ Its homology with the pDWFT4 BamHI fragment starts at position 1889 and stops at position 1918 of FIG. 4

[0174] Stu=5′-CCA CGG AGG CCT TCG CCT GCC GCC AGA GCT GC-3′ Its homology with the pDWFT4 BamHI fragment starts at position 1831 and stops at position 1862 of FIG. 4

[0175] Stu1=5′-GGC GAA GGC CTC CGT GGC GGC GAT GTC CTT GG-3′ Its homology with the pDWFT4 BamHI fragment starts at position 1847 and stops at position 1806 of FIG. 4

[0176] Xho=5′-TTC AGC AGT CCG TCG TGG ACG-3′ Its homology with the pDWFT4 BamHI fragment starts at position 1687 and stops at position 1707 of FIG. 4

[0177] Nde=5′-GCG GAT ACG CGT TAC CCA TAC C-3′ Its homology with the pDWFT4 BamHI fragment starts at position 2062 and stops at position 2083 of FIG. 4

[0178] The StuI site was introduced first by producing PCR fragments using pDWFT4 as a template. The primer pairs Stu and Nde were used with Pfu-polymerase to produce the fragment StuPCR1 using the following reaction conditions: a 50 μl reaction using 1× Pfu-polymerase buffer (Promega) 100 pg template DNA, 200 μM dNTPs, 20 pmol each primer, 5% DMSO and the following thermal cycle: a denaturation step at 94° C. for 3 min followed by 25 cycles with denaturation at 94° C. for 35 s, annealing at 55° C. for 1 min and elongation at 68° C. for 1 min 30 s. A last elongation step was done at 68° C. for 5 min. Subsequently the primer pairs Stul and Xho were used with Taq-polymerase to produce the fragment StuPCR2 using similar conditions to those for StuPCR1 but with 1× Taq-buffer and elongation steps carried out at 72° C. These fragments were then purified by agarose gel electrophoresis into 50 μl water. Then 0.5 μl of each PCR fragment were mixed and used as template for a PCR with Pfu polymerase and primer pairs Xho and Nde to produce fragment StuPCR3 using conditions similar to those for StuPCR1 but with only 10 cycles of the thermal cycle. The plasmid pDWFT17 was cut with XhoI and NdeI and purified away from the small fragment that has been released using agarose gel electrophoresis. The PCR product StuPCR3 was then be cut with XhoI and NdeI and ligated into the XhoI/NdeI cut pDWFT17 to generate a new plasmid, pDWFT19, which possesses an StuI site in the position described above as demonstrated by restriction digests with StuI.

[0179] The SpeI site was then introduced by producing PCR fragments using pDWFT19 as template. The primer pairs FTP25 and Nde were used with Pfu-polymerase to produce the PCR fragment SpePCR1 (conditions as for StuPCR1) and then primer pairs Spe1 and Xho were used with Pfu-polymerase to produce the PCR fragment SpePCR2 (conditions as for StuPCR1). These fragments were purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and mixed in approximately equimolar amounts then subject to PCR with Pfu-polymerase and primer pairs Xho and Nde to produce the PCR fragment SpePCR3 (conditions as for StuPCR3). This PCR product was then used to replace the region between the XhoI and NdeI restriction sites of pDWFT17. The plasmid pDWFT17 was cut with XhoI and NdeI and purified away from the small fragment that was released -using agarose gel electrophoresis. The PCR product SpePCR3 was cut with XhoI and NdeI and ligated into the XhoI/NdeI cut pDWFT17 to generate a new plasmid, pDWFT21. This plasmid has been shown to possess both the SpeI and StuI restriction sites described above by sequencing, however, the sequence also shows that a 3bp insert downstream of the SpeI site has been introduced (see FIG. 29).

[0180] It was decided to replace the cinA pro-peptide encoding region of pDWFT21 encompassed by the StuI/SpeI sites with a tetracycline resistance cassette. This cassette was over 1 Kb in size and it would, therefore, be easy to identify the fragment of pDWFT21 left by excision of this cassette using StuI/SpeI restriction endonucleases.

[0181] The above was achieved by using PCR, with Taq-polymerase, to produce a copy of the tetracycline resistance gene, Tc, from pBR322 with a StuI site immediately downstream of the stop codon and a SpeI 121 bp upstream of the start codon using the following primers: tet3=5′-GCG GCG AGG CCT CGC CGG CTT CCA TTC AGG tet4=5′-GCG GCG ACT AGT AAT AGG CGT ATC ACG AGG The reaction conditions used to make this PCR fragment were the same as those for StuPCR2. This was then used to replace the StuI/SpeI fragment, encoding the propeptide region of cinA, of pDWFT21 thus generating pDWFT33. This last construct was used to make cinnamycin-derivative constructs.

[0182] Large double stranded oligos were made which were variations on the pDWFT21 StuI/SpeI fragment cinA-propeptide encoding region which incorporated changes that resulted in the cinnamycin cluster producing duramycin or duramycinB instead of cinnamycin. These were constructed from 88mer single stranded oligonucleotides (duranA and duranB which encode the propeptide regions for duramycin and duramycinB respectively) that were annealed to a complimentary 20mer single stranded oligonucleotide (endfill) which was then elongated with pfu-polymerase to produce 88mer double stranded oligonucleotides using conditions similar to those for StuPCR1 but with only one cycle of melting, annealing and elongation. The oligonucleotide sequences were: duranA =  5′-GCG GCG AGG CCT TCG CCT GCA AGC AGA GCT GCA GCT TCG GCC CGT TCA CCT TCG TGT GCG ACG GCA ACA CCA AGT AAC TAG TCC GGC C-3′ duranB =  5′-GCG GCG AGG CCT TCG CCT GCC GCC AGA GCT GCA GCT TCG GCC CGC TCA CCT TCG TGT GCG ACG GCA ACA CCA AGT AAC TAG TCC GGC C-3′ endfill = 5′-GGC CGG ACT AGT TAC TTG GT-3′

[0183] These double stranded oligonucleotides were cleaned by using a Qiagen gel extraction kit by adding 50 μl of sterile distilled water to the 50 μl of reaction mixture then proceeding as though this were a 100 mg gel slice. The double stranded oligonucleotides were eluted from the qiagen column in 40 μl water. They were subsequently digested with StuI and SpeI and used to replace the StuI/SpeI Tc gene fragment of pDWFT33 resulting in two plasmids; pDWFT40 (duranB) and pDWFT42 (duranA). The cinnamycin structural gene cinA was therefore replaced with a duramycin structural gene or a duramycinB structural gene as appropriate and as described above. These plasmids were then used to reconstitute the duramycin equivalents of pDWFT9 in the same manner as pDWFT4. This process resulted in pDWFT52 which carries a duramycinB structural gene and pDWFT54 which carries a duramycin structural gene. These plasmids were then transformed into S. lividans 1326. Transformants were selected and the resulting strains, DW52 and DW54 were bioassayed for cinnamycin and cultures grown for MALDI-TOF analysis as described above.

[0184] Results

[0185] The strains DW52 and DW54, which are predicted to make duramycinB and duramycin respectively, were tested to determine if they could inhibit the growth of B. subtillis in bioassays.

[0186] The strains DW52 and DWS4 inhibit the growth of B. subtillis in bio-assays indicating that they each produce an antibiotic compound. This indicates that the changes to the propeptide encoding region of cinA still allow production of an antibiotic compound by the cinnamycin cluster. See Table 3.

[0187] To check that these compounds are duramycinB and duramycin supernatants from liquid cultures were examined using MALDI-TOF mass-spectrometry.

[0188] Neither DW52 or DW54 produced a compound with the molecular weight of cinnamycin indicating that the changes in the pro-peptide regions of their respective cinA genes abolished their cinnamycin clusters abilities to produce cinnamycin. However, as predicted from the changes made to their cinA pro-peptide regions, DW52 was able to produce a compound with the expected MW of duramycinB and DW54 was able to produce a compound with the expected MW of duramycin. This indicates that we have successfully engineered the cinnamycin cluster to produce variants of cinnamycin. See Table 4.

EXAMPLE 3 Defining the Roles of Some of the Genes Carried on pDWFT9 in the Cinnamycin Production Cluster

[0189] The creation of a plasmid that lacks the genes upstream of cinorf7 and cinR1

[0190] In order to determine if cinorf3, cinorf4, cinorf12, cinorf13 and cinorf14 are involved in the production of cinnamycin a strain was created that lacks all or parts of these genes. In order to facilitate this it was decided to create a version of pDWFT4 wherein the BamHI end upstream of cinorf7 was moved so that cinorf3 and most of cinorf4 was deleted and a version of pDWFT5 was created so the Asp718 end upstream of cinR1 was moved so that cinorf13, cinorf14 and most of cinorf12 were deleted. These two modified plasmids could then be reassembled in a similar manner to that which gave rise to pDWFT9 (described above).

[0191] The first step in this process was to generate the variant of pDWFT4. A PCR product was generated using the following two primers:

[0192] BAM=5′-GGC GCC GGA TCC TAC CGC AAC GAC GGC ACC GAG C; and NDE (described above)

[0193] The first six nucleotides of primer BAM are random G+C which are there only to make digestion of the subsequent PCR fragment with BamHI easier. The next six nucleotides constitute the new BamHI site which is to be introduced and the remaining nucleotides are homologous to the cinnamycin cluster from position 961 to 982. The PCR product produced using BAM and NDE was 1123bp long and was produced using pDWFT4 as a template and Taq-polymerase other reaction conditions were the same as those for StuPCR2. It was then digested with BamHI and XhoI to generate an approximately 770bp fragment with a BamHI compatible end and a XhoI compatible end. This fragment was then purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and cloned into pBluescriptIIKS that had been cut with BamBI and XhoI to give pDWFT11. The BamHI fragment from pDWFT4 was sub-cloned into BamHI cut pUC18 so that the XhoI site within the BamHI fragment was closest to the XbaI site of pUC18 to give pDWFT14f. The plasmid pDWFT11 was then digested with XbaI and XhoI which releases the cloned PCR fragment plus a small piece of the pUC18 polylinker region. This fragment was then purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and cloned into pDWFT14f that had been cut with XbaI and XhoI to give pDWFT15. This restores the native conformation of the cinA gene and creates a new BamHI fragment that corresponds to the region of pDWFT4 that lies between position 961 and 4872 of FIG. 4. This BamHI fragment was subsequently cloned into pDWFT6 and thence into pOJ436 in a similar manner to that in which pDWFT4 gave rise to pDWFT8, to yielding pDWFT25.

[0194] The second step in this process was to generate the variant of pDWFT5. A PCR product was generated using the following two primers:

[0195] KPN=5′-GGC GCC GGT ACC GAG GAC GTC GAG CTG TTC GAG C (The first six nucleotides of primer KPN are random G+C which are there only to make digestion of the subsequent PCR fragment with Asp718 easier. The following six nucleotides constitute the new Asp718 site which is introduced and the remaining nucleotides are homologous to the cinnamycin cluster from position 15621 to 15599)

[0196] FTP1=5′ CAG GTC GCC GAC GAT CTC GTC G

[0197] These primers were used to generate a PCR fragment using Pfu-polymerase and pDWFT5 as a template otherwise the reaction conditions were the same as those for StuPCR1. The PCR fragment was approximately 1025bp long and was digested with BamHI and Asp718 to give a fragment that was approximately 956bp long which was then purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and cloned into pUC18 cut with BamHI and Asp718 to give pDWFT16. An approximately 6.5 kb BamHI fragment was cloned from S. cinnamoneus cinnamoneus 40005 chromosomal DNA in a manner similar to that used to clone the Asp718 fragment in pDWFT5 with the modification that the chromosomal DNA was cut with BamHI and cloned into BamHI cut pBluescriptII to give pDWFT3. The 6.5 kb BamHI from pDWFT3 corresponding to positions 8016 to 14660 of FIG. 4, was cloned into BamHI cut pDWFT16 such that the portions of cinR1 on the fragment and pDWFT16 are contiguous, yielding pDWFT24. This plasmid was then cut with BglII and EcoRI which releases a approximately 6.9 kb fragment (which corresponds to positions 8730 to 15621 of FIG. 4) that was purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and cloned into pDWFT5 that had been cut with BglII and EcoRI and the approximately 6.3 kb fragment purified by agarose gel electrophoresis to give pDWFT27. This plasmid contains an Asp718 fragment that corresponds to positions 5423 to 15621 of FIG. 4. The final step was to digest pDWFT27 with Asp718 and purify the approximately 10 kb fragment by agarose gel electrophoresis and clone it into Asp718 cut pDWFT25 so that the portion of the cinX gene carried on the Asp718 fragment corresponds to the portion of the cinM gene carried on pDWFT25, yielding pDWFT28. This plasmid was then transformed into S. lividans 1326. The DNA carried on pDWFT28 corresponds to the region between positions 961 to 15621 of FIG. 4). A transformant was selected and the resulting strain, DW28, was bioassayed for cinnamycin and cultures grown for MALDI-TOF analysis as described above.

[0198] Construction of single gene deletions from the cinnamycin cluster carried on PDWFT9

[0199] A series of constructs was created in which the single genes were removed so that the open-reading frame was completely missing from the start codon to the stop codon and either deleted completely, replaced with a StuI restriction site or replaced with a tetracycline resistance gene, Tc, derived from pDWFT33. This was to formally test the hypothesis that these genes were essential for cinnamycin production.

[0200] Construction of a cinorf7 deletion

[0201] This was achieved by replacement of the desired gene with a PCR generated replacement cassette, which carries a selectable marker, using homologous recombination. In this case the replacement cassette used was the Tc gene, which confers tetracycline resistance, from pDWFT33. A plasmid carrying the gene to be replaced is transformed into E.coli BW25113 pIJ790 (available from the JIC) which possesses the plasmid pIJ790 (pIJ790 is based on the plasmid pKD20 (Datsenko and Wanner, 2000) but carries a chloramphenicol resistance gene (cat) instead of an ampicillin resistance gene (bla)) which carries an arabinose inducible recombination system based on that of the λ phage. PCR primers are designed which are homologous to the desired replacement cassette at their 3′-ends and have 5′-extensions which are homologous to the DNA flanking the region to be replaced. A PCR product is prepared using these primers which is then transformed into E.coli BW25113 pIJ790 plus target plasmid. The induced recombinase within the cell then uses the regions of homology, incorporated into the 5′-extensions of the PCR primers, to the sequences flanking the target DNA to replace the target DNA with the replacement cassette. Transformants can then be selected for using the selectable marker carried on the replacement cassette.

[0202] The oligonucleotide primers incorporated StuI restriction sites between the regions homologous to the flanking regions of the gene to be replaced and the regions homologous to the Tc replacement cassette. It was subsequently possible to remove the Tc replacement cassette by StuI restriction digestion to leave a StuI site in place of cinorf7.

[0203] The following oligonucleotide primers were synthesised:

[0204] 7A=5′-TCG TTC TCA CCG GGA ACC GAC TGG ATG GGG AAA CGG GCC AGG CCT CGC CGG CTT CCA TTC AGG. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 1228 to 1266; and

[0205]7B 5′-ACC TCC GAT GTT GAG GTG AAT CCC GGC ACC CGG CGG GTG AGG CCT AAT AGG CGT ATC ACG AGG. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 1665 to 1627

[0206] A PCR was prepared that was labelled PCR7 using 7A and 7B as primers with Taq-polymerase and pDWFT33 as a template using a reaction mixture similar to that for StuPCR2 and the following thermal cycle 3 min at 94° C. followed by 5 cycles of melting at 94° C. for 35 sec, annealing at 55° C. for 1 min and elongation at 52° C. for 2 min then 20 cycles of melting at 94° C. for 35 sec, annealing at 60° C. for 1 min and elongation at 72° for 2 min. The PCR product was then purified by agarose gel electrophoresis. The plasmid pDWFT7 was transformed into E. coli BW25113 pIJ790 (available from the JIC). E. coli BW25113 pIJ790 pDWFT7 was grown in 10 ml SOB (Hanahan, 1983) with chloramphenicol(25 μg/ml) apramycin and L-arabinose (final concentration of 10 mM) at 30° C. to an OD₆₀₀ of ˜0.6 and then made electro-competent by washing twice with 10 ml ice-cold 10% glycerol and resuspended in 100 μl 10% glycerol. Cells were electroporated with ˜100 ng of purified PCR7. Electroporation was carried out in 0.2 cm ice-cold electroporation chambers using a BioRad GenePulser II set to the following parameters: 200 φ, 25 μF and 2,5 kV. Shocked cells were added to 1 ml LB (Luria-Bertani medium; Sambrook et al., 1998), incubated 1 h at 30° C. and then spread onto LB agar+tetracycline (10 μg/ml) and incubated o/n at 37° C. to select for the successful replacement of the target gene by the PCR product containing the Tc gene. In this way a variant of pDWFT7 was selected in which cinorf7 was replaced with a StuI flanked Tc gene which was labelled pDWFT73. This plasmid was then used to create a variant of pDWFT9 in which cinorf7 was replaced with the StuI flanked Tc gene, in a similar manner to which pDWFT7 was used to create pDWFT9, to give pDWFT77. This plasmid was then digested with StuI and the large fragment produced was purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and religated to create pDWFT78, a version of pDWFT9 in which cinorf7 was replaced with a StuI site. This plasmid was then introduced into S. lividans 1326 by conjugation. This was carried out as follows. The plasmid pDWFT78 was transformed into E. coli ET12567/pUZ8002. A single colony of the resulting strain (ET12567/pUZ8002/pDWFT78 was inoculated into 10 ml LB containing kanamycin (25 μg/ml), chloramphenicol (25 μg/ml) and apramycin (50 μg/ml) and grown overnight at 37° C. The overnight culture was diluted 1:100 in fresh LB with antibiotic selection (see above) and grown at 37° C. to an OD₆₀₀ of approximately 0.4-0.6. The cells were washed twice with an equal volume of LB to remove antibiotics and resuspended in 1 ml of LB.

[0207] For each conjugation, approximately 108 Streptomyces spores were added to 500 μl 2×YT broth, heat shocked at 50° C. for 10 min, allowed to cool and then mixed with 500 μl ET12567/pUZ8002/pDWFT78 cells, spun briefly and most of the supernatant was poured off. The pellet was resuspended in the residual liquid and plated out on SFM agar+10 mM MgCl₂ (Kieser et al., 2000) and incubated at 30° C. for 16-20 h.

[0208] Plates were overlaid with 1 ml water containing 0.5 mg nalidixic acid (which kills E. coli, thereby selecting for the Streptomyces cells) and 1 mg apramycin and incubated at 30° C. for 3-6 days. Exconjugants were streaked onto SFM+nalidixic acid (50 μg/ml) and apramycin (50 μg/ml) The strain thus created, C78, was bioassayed for cinnamycin production, as previously described, and grown as lawns on SFM+ and apramycin (50 μg/ml) for spore preps to prepare liquid cultures for use in MALDI-TOF assays. These liquid cultures were prepared as described before but instead of subjecting the spent media to organic solvent extractions it was diluted 1/10 in 10% formic acid and used directly in the MALDI-TOF mass-spectrophotometer.

[0209] Construction of a cinA deletion

[0210] This was achieved by producing overlapping PCR products where, in each PCR product, one of the primer sequences had homolgy to regions of the DNA that immediately flank the cinA gene. These primers also have a certain amount of overlap between each other so that the subsequent PCR primers can be annealed to each other and extended so that the resulting product can be amplified with the flanking PCR primers.

[0211] The following oligonucleotide primers were synthesised:

[0212] FTP35=5′-GGC GAC AGC AGC GTC TCG GAC C. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 811 to 832;

[0213] LA=5′-GGC AGC AGC CAC GGC TTA CCT CCG ATG TTG AGG. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 1670 to 1650 and from 1919 to 1908;

[0214] RA=5′-CGG AGG TAA GCC GTG GCT GCT GCC TCT AGG This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 1659 to 1650 and from 1908 to 1925; and

[0215] FTP28=5′-TTC AGG TAG AAG CGG TGG TAG G This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 2795 to 2774

[0216] Using Pfu polymerase and pDWFT4 as a template, PCRs were prepared using the primer pair FTP35 and LA, using similar reaction conditions to StuPCR1, to give a PCR product that was labelled CINAPCR1 whilst, using similar reaction conditions, RA and FTP28 were used to produce a PCR product labelled CINAPCR2. These PCR products were purified by agarose gel electrophoresis then PCR using primer pairs FTP35 and FTP28 to give PCR product CINAPCR3 in a similar manner to that used for the creation of StuPCR3. This product was then purified by agarose gel electrbphoresis and digested with SalI and PstI and cloned into pUC18 that had been cut with SalI and PstI, and purified by agarose gel electrophoresis, to give pDWFT35. The plasmid pDWFT14r (made similarly as pDWFT14f but with the approximately 5 Kb BarnmHI fragment oriented in the opposite direction) was digested with Asp718 and SalI and the approximately 900bp fragment purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and cloned into pDWFT35 that had been cut with Asp718 and SalI, and purified by agarose gel electrophoresis, to give pDWFT55. The plasmid pDWFT4 was then cut with PstI and XbaI and the approximately 2.5 kb fragment was purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and cloned into pDWFT55 that had been cut with PstI and XbaI, purified by agarose gel electrophoresis, to give pDWFT56.

[0217] The resulting plasmid pDWFT56, is similar to pDWFT4 except that it lacks the cinA gene. This plasmid was then used to reconstruct a cinnamycin cluster similar to pDWFT9, but lacking cinA, via a similar pathway to that used to make pDWFT9 to give pDWFT69. This plasmid was then introduced into S. lividans 1326 by conjugation as described for the construction of a cinorf7 deletion. The resulting strain, C69, was bioassayed for cinnamycin and cultures grown for MALDI-TOF analysis as described for construction of a cinorf7 deletion.

[0218] Construction of a cinM deletion

[0219] This was achieved by producing overlapping PCR products where, in each PCR product, one of the primer sequences had homolgy to regions of the DNA that immediately flank the cinM gene. These primers also have a certain amount of overlap between each other so that the subsequent PCR primers can be annealed to each other and extended so that the resulting product can be amplified with the flanking PCR primers. The following oligonucleotide primers were synthesised:

[0220] XHO (see above);

[0221] LM=5′-TGG AGC CAC TCC ATG-CGA ATT TCT CCT GCG GTC G. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 5337 to 5326 and from 2058 to 2037;

[0222] RM=5′-AGA AAT TCG CAT GGA GTG GCT CCA CCA TGG. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 2047 to 2058 and from 5326 to 5343; and

[0223] FTPMR=5′-CGG CCG AGC TCG ACG ATC TCC. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 5449 to 5429.

[0224] Using Pfu polymerase and pDWFT9 as a template PCRs were prepared using the primer pair XHO and LM, using similar reaction conditions to StuPCR1, to give a PCR product that was labelled CINMPCR1. Using similar reaction conditions, RM and FTPMR were used to produce a PCR product labelled CINAPCR2. These PCR products were purified by agarose gel electrophoresis then subject to PCR using primer pairs XHO and FTPMR to give PCR product CINAPCR3 in a similar manner to that used for the creation of StuPCR3. This product was then purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and digested with XhoI and Asp718 and cloned into the approximately 4.7 kb fragment from pDWFT7 that had been cut with XhoI and Asp718 and purified by agarose gel electrophoresis, to give pDWFT43. The plasmid pDWFT43 is similar to pDWFT7 except that it lacks the cinM gene. This plasmid was then used to reconstruct a cinnamycin cluster similar to pDWFT9, but lacking cinM, via a similar pathway to that used to make pDWFT9 to give pDWFT68. This plasmid was then introduced into S. lividans 1326 by conjugation as described for construction of a cinorf7 deletion. The resulting strain, C68, was bioassayed for cinnamycin and cultures-grown for MALDI-TOF analysis as described for construction of a cinorf7 deletion.

[0225] Construction of a cinX deletion

[0226] The construction of a cinX deletion was achieved in a similar manner to that used for cinorf7 to leave a StuI site in place of cinX.

[0227] The following primers were used:

[0228] XA=5′-CCC GCC GTC GCA CCA CGA ACA GTA AGG AGT GGC TCC ACC AGG CCT CGC CGG CTT CCA TTC AGG. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 5301 to 5339; and

[0229] XB=5′-TCC TTG GTG CCG CGC GGT GCG CGG ACG ACG GGT GCC GGG AGG CCT AAT AGG CGT ATC ACG AGG. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 6356 to 6318.

[0230] Using XA and XB as primers a PCR was prepared in a similar manner to that for cinorf7 that was labelled PCRX. The plasmid pDWFT5 was digested with Asp718 and the approximately 11.5 kb fragment was purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and cloned into pDWFT7 that had been cut with Asp718, and purified by agarose gel electrophoresis, such that the native orientation of the cinnamycin cluster was restored to give pDWFT74. The plasmid pDWFT74 was transformed into E. coli BW25113 pIJ790. The BW25113 pIJ790 pDWFT74 strain was then used to produce electro-competent cells which were transformed by electroporation with PCRX in the same manner as described for cinorf7. In this way a variant of pDWFT74 was selected in which cinX was replaced with a StuI flanked Tc gene which was labelled pDWFT79. This plasmid was then used to create a variant of pDWFT9 in which cinX was replaced with the StuI flanked Tc gene by digesting it with XbaI and Asp718 and cloning it into XbaI and Asp718 cut pOJ436 to give pDWFT82. This plasmid was then digested with StuI and the large fragment produced was purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and religated to create pDWFT90, a version of pDWFT9 in which cinX was replaced with a StuI site. This plasmid was then introduced into S. lividans 1326 by conjugation as described for construction of a cinorf7 deletion. The resulting strain, C90, was bioassayed for cinnamycin and cultures grown for MALDI-TOF analysis as described for construction of a cinorf7 deletion.

[0231] Construction of a cinR deletion

[0232] This was achieved in a similar manner to that used for cinorf7 to leave a StuI site in place of cinR.

[0233] The following primers were used:

[0234] RA=5′-TCA GCA CTG TCG AAG AAC ACC TCG CGC CGG GAG CGG CAT AGG CCT CGC CGG CTT CCA TTC AGG. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 11798 to 11760; and

[0235] RB=5′-CTG CTG ACA CCC GGC CCG TAG CGG TCA CGG CTC ACA CCG AGG CCT AAT AGG CGT ATC ACG AGG. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 11072 to 11110.

[0236] Using RA and RB as primers a PCR was prepared in a similar manner to that prepared for cinorf7 that was labelled PCRR. The plasmid pDWFT5 was transformed into E. coli BW25113 pIJ790. The strain BW25113 pIJ790 pDWFT5 was then used to produce electro-competent cells which were transformed by electroporation with PCRR in the manner described for cinorf7. In this way a variant of pDWFT5 was selected in which cinR was replaced with a StuI flanked Tc gene which was labelled pDWFT80. This plasmid was then used to create a variant of pDWFT9 in which cinR was replaced with the StuI flanked Tc gene, in a similar manner to which pDWFT5 was used to create pDWFT9, to give pDWFT85. This plasmid was then digested with StuI and the large fragment produced was purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and re-ligated to create pDWFT88, a version of pDWFT9 in which cinR was replaced with a StuI site. This plasmid was then introduced into S. lividans 1326 by conjugation as described for construction of a cinorf7 deletion. The resulting strain, C88, was bioassayed for cinnamycin and cultures grown for MALDI-TOF analysis as described for construction of a cinorf7 deletion.

[0237] Construction of a cinR1 Deletion

[0238] This was achieved in a similar manner to that used to replace cinorf7 to replace cinR1 with the Tc replacement cassette.

[0239] The following primers were used:

[0240] SARPA=5′-GTC TTC AGG GTG CGG CTC GAT GAG CGA AGG GGA GAG TTC AGG CCT CGC CGG CTT CCA TTC AGG. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 15199 to 15161; and

[0241] SARPB=5′-CTC GTG CAC CGC CGG CGC GCG CGC CGG GCG GTG GGC GGC AGG CCT AAT AGG CGT ATC ACG AGG. This primer has homology to the cinnamycin cluster from position 14336 to 14374.

[0242] Using SARPA and SARPB as primers a PCR was prepared in a similar manner to that prepared for cinorf7 that was labelled PCRSARP. The plasmid pDWFT5 was transformed into E. coli BW25113 pIJ790. The strain BW25113 pIJ790 pDWFTS was then used to produce electro-competent cells which were transformed by electroporation with PCRSARP in the manner described for cinorf7. In this way a variant of pDWFT5 was selected in which cinR1 was replaced with a StuI flanked Tc gene which was labelled pDWFT81. This plasmid was then used to create a variant of pDWFT9 in which cinR1 was replaced with the StuI flanked Tc gene, in a similar manner to which pDWFT5 was used to create pDWFT9, to give pDWFT89. This plasmid was then introduced into S. lividans 1326 by conjugation as described for construction of a cinorf7 deletion. The resulting strain, C89, was bioassayed for cinnamycin and cultures grown for MALDI-TOF analysis as described for construction of a cinorf7 deletion.

[0243] Results

[0244] All of the deletion constructs of the cinnamycin cluster described above were examined by bio-assay to determine whether they could still produce an antibiotic compound. See Table 5.

[0245] Strains DW28 (deletions of the regions upstream of cinA and cinR1) and C90 (cinX deletion) still produce an antibiotic compound whilst strains C78 (cinorf7 deletion), C69 (cinA deletion), C68 (cinM deletion), C88 (cinR deletion) and C89 (cinR1 deletion) do not. These results indicate that the regions deleted from the cinnamycin clusters in C78, C69, C68, C88 and C89 (which correspond to the genes cinorf7, cinA, cinM cinR and cinR1 respectively) are essential for the inhibition of growth of B. subtillis in a bio-assay. However, the regions deleted from the cinnamycin cluster in DW28 (which include all of cinorf3, cinorf13 and cinorf14 and most of cinorf4 and cinorf12) and C90 (cinX deletion) are not essential for the inhibition of growth of B. subtillis in a bio-assay. Supernatants from these strains were examined by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry to determine if a compound with the MW of cinnaycin was still made by these strains. See Table 6.

[0246] The MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry data shown in Table 6 indicate that DW28 and C78 still produce cinnamycin (MW=2039) whilst C69, C68 and C90 do not. This indicates that cinA, cinM and cinX are essential for cinnamycin production. However, in the three strains shown in Table 6 that do produce cinnamycin there is also a peak with a MW of 2023 daltons (16 daltons lighter than cinnamycin). This peak is absent from two of the three strains unable to make cinnamycin, C69 (cinA deletion) and C68 (cinM deletion), but is present in C90 (cinX deletion).

[0247] Discussion

[0248] All of the results discussed below pertain to the functions of the genes of the cinnamycin cluster in S. lividans 1326.

[0249] We have demonstrated that by the introduction of unique restriction sites either side of the cinA pro-peptide encoding region we can replace the region of cinA that encodes the structural gene for cinnamycin with one that encodes a variation on cinnamycin. In this case we have evidence that shows that the cinnamycin cluster can be manipulated to produce duramycin and duramycinB instead of cinnamycin. The approach exemplified herein can be used for the production of many different and novel variations of cinnamycin.

[0250] With the strain DW28 we have also shown that positions 1 to 961 and 15621 to 17083 of the cinnamycin cluster as represented in FIG. 4 are not essential for the production of cinnamycin in S. lividans 1326. This means that cinorf3, cinorf13 and cinorf14 are not essential to the production of cinnamycin. It also suggests that cinorf4 is not essential as it is only present in a truncated form that also lacks its promoter region. It also suggests that the product of cinorf12 may not be essential for cinnamycin production.

[0251] The strains C69 and C68 show that the genes cinA and cinM are both essential for cinnamycin production by both bio-assay and mass spectrometry analysis. The gene cinA is the structural gene for cinnamycin which we have already demonstrated can be manipulated to make the cinnamycin cluster produce natural variants of cinnamycin. The gene cinM is thought to encode a LanM type protein that would be responsible for the production of the lanthionine residues of cinnamycin.

[0252] The strain C78 does not produce a zone of inhibition in a bio-assay but according to mass spectometry analysis does produce cinnamycin. This suggests that although it produces enough cinnamycin to be detected in a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer it does not produce enough to inhibit the growth of B. subtilis. This indicates that although cinorf7 is not essential for cinnamycin production it does greatly enhance its production.

[0253] The strain C90 produces a zone of inhibition in a bio-assay but does not produce a compound with the molecular weight of cinnamycin. However it, along with the other cinnamycin producing strains in Table 6, does produce a compound 16 daltons lighter than cinnamycin. Amongst the post-translational modifications of the cinnamycin propeptide is the addition of an oxygen atom to the aspatate residue to form beta-hydroxy aspartate. The results shown here suggest that the process that adds this oxygen atom is not efficient and some of the cinnamycin pre-cursor, which we shall term deoxycinnamycin, is secreted before it is modified and this is represented by the peak with a MW of 2023 as detected by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. That C90 only produces a peak with a MW that corresponds to deoxycinnamycin suggests the product of cirY is an enzyme responsible for the addition of the oxygen atom to the aspartate residue of the propeptide to form cinnamycin. This would mean that by removing cinX from the cinnamycin cluster and combining this with the methods described above for the production of variants of cinnamycin one could produce both variants and deoxy-variants. Also by increasing the copy number of cinX in a strain one may be able to increase the amount of cinX product within a cell and thus reduce the amount of deoxycinnamycin (or deoxy-variant) produced by a S. lividans strain hosting the cinnamycin cluster.

[0254] The bio-assay results for strains C88 and C89 suggests that the genes cinR and cinR1 are at least necessary for the production of enough cinnamycin to be detected by bio-assay in a S. lividans strain. TABLE 1 The effect on the growth of B. subtilis by strains of S. lividans possessing either the plasmid pDWFT9 or the vector pOJ436. Inhibition of the Growth of Strain B. subtilis S. + cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 40005 DW9a-1 + DW9a-2 + DW9a-3 + DW9a-4 + DW9a-5 + Dw9a-6 + DW9a-7 + DW9a-8 + DW9a-9 + DW436-1 − DW436-2 − DW436-3 − DW436-4 −

[0255] TABLE 2 The detection of compounds with similar molecular weights to cinnamycin by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry Strain Streptomyces cinnamoneus cinnamoneus DSM 4000 5DW9a-1 DW436-4 Growth media TSB YEME TSB YEME TSB YEME Presence + + + + − − of molecule of MW 2039.9 ± 0.1

[0256] TABLE 3 The effect on the growth of B. subtilis by strains of S. lividans possessing plasmids that carry a cluster encoding variants of cinnamycin Strain DW436-4 DW9a-1 DW52 DW54 Inhibition of the − + + + Growth of B. subtilis

[0257] TABLE 4 The detection of cinnamycin and its derivatives by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry Presence of molecule with Strain MW off DW436-4 DW9a-1 DW52 DW54 cinnamycin MW = 2039.9 ± − + − − 0.1 durainycinB MW = 2005 − − + − duramycin MW = 2011 − − − +

[0258] TABLE 5 The effect on the growth of B. subtilis by strains of S. lividans possessing variants of pDWFT9 in which different sections of DNA been deleted. Strain DW436-4 DW9a-1 DW28 C78 C69 C68 C90 C88 C89 Inhibition of − + + − − − + − − the growth of B. subtilis

[0259] TABLE 6 The detection of cinnamycin by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry by strains of S. lividans possessing variants of pDWFT9 in which different sections of DNA have been deleted. Strain C9 DW28 C78 C69 C68 C90 MW = 2039 + + + − − − MW = 2023 + + + − − +

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0 SEQUENCE LISTING <160> NUMBER OF SEQ ID NOS: 65 <210> SEQ ID NO 1 <211> LENGTH: 2943 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <221> NAME/KEY: misc_feature <222> LOCATION: (1) .. 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tccagctcgg ccaccacacc ggccggagcg 1020 actacatcga ggccgggcgc aaggccttcg cctacgagga ccggtacgtc gacgaggcgg 1080 agaaggactg gtacgacctg cggatcaaca acggctccgc ggtcaagggc gcccggcact 1140 tctccaacgc ctggtgcaac ggggcggccg gcatcgggct cgcccggatc accagctggg 1200 acgcgctcgg ccgcaccgac gaacaactgc tgcgcgaggc ccagcaggcg ctgtcggcga 1260 ccatgcgcaa cttcccccgg ctgaagaacc acaccctgtg ccacggcacg tccggcaacg 1320 ccgagctctt cctgcgcttc gcccggctca acgacgaacc ggccttccag ctggaggcca 1380 acgtccaggt ccaggcgctg tggcggagct tcgacgaggc gggcgacagc acggcggaca 1440 acagtgccga cttcttcccg ggactgatga tcggcatctc cggattcggc atgcacttcc 1500 tgcggctggc ggccccggac cgcgtcccgt ccgtgctgct cctcgacccg ccgtcgcacc 1560 acgaacagta aggagtcgct ccaccatggc cctgaagacc tgcgaggaat tcctgcgcga 1620 cgccctcgac cccgaccgct tcggccggga gatgaaggcg gtcacggaga taccggagat 1680 cgtcaagctc ggccaccgcc acggatacgg cttcaccgcc gaggagttcc tgacgaaggc 1740 catgtccttc ggcgccccgc cggccggtgc cgcggcgcca ggggagagcg cgagcgtgcc 1800 ggggcagaac ggctcctcgc ccggccacgc cgcccgggcc gccatggccg gcccggaggc 1860 cggcgccacc agcttcgccc actacgagta ccgcctggac gagctccccg agttcgcacc 1920 cgtcgtcgcg gagctcccca agctgaaggt catgccgccc tccgtcggac cggaccgctt 1980 cgccgcccgc taccgcgacg aggacatgcg gacgatctcg atgtcccccg ccgaccccgc 2040 ctaccaggcc tggcaccagg agctcgccgg gcggggctgg cgggacgccg aggacacagc 2100 tgccgcaccg gacgcacccc ggcgggactt ccacctcctc aacctcgacg aacacgtcga 2160 ctaccccggc tacgaggagt acttcgcggc gaagaccagg gtcgtggcgg ccctggaaaa 2220 cctcttcggc ggcgacgtgc gctgctcggg ctccatgtgg tacccgccgt ccagctaccg 2280 gctgtggcac accaacgccg accagccggg atggcgcatg tacctcgtgg acgtcgaccg 2340 gcccttcgcc gaccccgacc ggacctcgtt cttccgctac ctccacccgc gcacccggga 2400 gatcgtcacg ctgcgcgaga gcccgcgcat cgtgcggttc ttcaaggtcg agcaggaccc 2460 ggagaagctg ttctggcact gcatcgccaa ccccacggac cggcaccgct ggagcttcgg 2520 ctatgtcgtg ccggagaact ggatggacgc cctccgccac cacggctgac cccgcacccg 2580 tcgccgcgcg caccgcgggg caccaaggag gagcgatgtt cggagcagga ccgcggaccg 2640 cgcgcaagcc ggcggcggac gacgggcccg 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gcctcagcgt caaggtcgcg gagggcgcca 3540 ggctcgtccc ggcgctgtgc gccgccctcg acgtggccgt ctacgaggtg accgtcaccc 3600 gccccagcct cgacgacgtc ttcctccacc acacggggcg cggaatccgc gacgactcag 3660 gagccggcgc atgacgcacg ccacggccgc actgccggcc gccgcccccc gcgaaaccgg 3720 ccgcatcgcc gccgaatggc gcgccggcac catggtgtgg cgacgcgaaa tgatccactt 3780 cctgcgctcg cgcgccggga tcgccgtgtc cctgctgcag ccgctgctgt tcctgtacgt 3840 gttgggcatc ggcctgtccc ggatgttcag cggcgccggc tcctccgacg actacatggt 3900 gttccttttc ccaggcgtgc tggtgatggc ggctcaggcc ccggccatct cggtgggcgc 3960 gtccatcgtc tgggaccggc agagcgggtt cctgcgcgag atgctggtgg cgcccgtcca 4020 ccgcagcacc ctgctgatcg gcaagtgcct cggcggcgcc accgtcgcgg cgtgccaggg 4080 cgcggtcgtc ctggccagcg ccgggctcgt gggtgtgccg taccggatcg acctcttcgc 4140 cgccctgctg gccgaactgc tcctcgcctc cctcgcgatg acggtcatgg gcgcggtgat 4200 cgcggtcagg atccagcgga tccagacgtt ccataccgcg ctgacggtcc tgacggcccc 4260 catggtcttc ctgtcggggc tgatgttccc cgtcagcgcc atgccggcct ggatggcctc 4320 gctcaccctc gtcaaccccc tgacgtacgc ggtcgatgcc atgcggcaga cgatcaccgc 4380 gttccacccc gccccggcgg ccggggcgtc gggggcaccg ttcttcgacc cggtctcctg 4440 gggaggctgg gacgtcccgc cggggctgtc ggtggccctg gtggccgcgt tctccgcggt 4500 ggctctggcg gtggccgccc gccgcttcgc acggaccgac tgaagtccca cgaagcgact 4560 gaaaacgccg tcgtcccggg cgacccaacc gtggatcatc gctcacgacc gtagcgccga 4620 accgatcaga ggagaccgca ccatgcgcac caccagacgc ctttcgctgc gccgccgtac 4680 cgctctgctc atgggcaccg cttcgctcgc ggccccgatg ctgctcacgg tccaggccgg 4740 cgaggcgcag gcgttcggca cgatcaactc gctcgggcag cgtgccgagc acgagcgcat 4800 cacccgggcg gcgctcgcct gcgagcctgg ccaggcatcc gacgggacgt gtttcgagcc 4860 gcgctcgatc gaccaagtgg cgggccacac cggcacgttc ggggccgtgg gctcgcccga 4920 ctcggacgag atct 4934 <210> SEQ ID NO 3 <211> LENGTH: 294 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Probe BB <400> SEQUENCE: 3 gcctacgagg accggtacgt cgacgaggcg gagaaggact ggtacgacct gcggatcaac 60 aacggctccg cggtcaaggg cgcccggcac ttctccaacg cctggtgcaa cggggcggcc 120 ggcatcgggc tcgcccggat caccagctgg gacgcgctcg gccgcaccga cgaacaactg 180 ctgcgcgagg cccagcaggc gctgtcggcg accatgcgca acttcccccg gctgaagaac 240 cacaccctgt gccacggcac gtccggcaac gccgagctct tcctgcgctt cgcc 294 <210> SEQ ID NO 4 <211> LENGTH: 17083 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 4 ggatcccggg ccgttcgccc agcacgagcc ccacacccag cgggaccgcg acgccgccga 60 gcgcgccgag gggggaaacc acgcccatgg ggcccagggc cagggccttg tagaaggcga 120 gcatcgccgc cgggccgacg acgccggccg ccaccgcgta ccagagctgg ggcccggcct 180 cggaccagcc gccggtgccg atcacgatcg cgcccagggc gaggacggcc agcagctggg 240 agaccaggac cacggtcagg gcgggcatgc gccgggtgag cagcccgccg ccgaagtcgg 300 ccagccccca catgaggctg gtggccaggg cgaagaccgg tgtcatgggg gagacctcgc 360 agtacagtgt gatgaacggt ggcgtccacg acaccgtagt acacgatact cgacttacga 420 gaataatatt ttggacggga tggatcgacc gacgtgacgg acctcgacca gctcacgcaa 480 tcgctcgccc gcaacctcaa gcgctggcgc ggtgagcgcc acttcaccct cgacgccctg 540 gcggcccgct ccggcgtcag ccgcggcatg atcatccaga tcgagcaggc ccggacgaac 600 cccagcgtcg gcaccacggt gaagctcgcc gacgccctgg gcgtcagcat caccacgctg 660 ctcgactacg agcagggcgc ccgcgtgcgg ctcgtgcccg aggagcaggt ggtgcgcatg 720 tggtccaccg aggcgggcag ccacacctca ctgctcgtcg gcgccgatgt gcgcggccca 780 ctggagctgt gggactggcg cctcgtgtcc ggcgacagca gcgtctcgga cccccacccg 840 cccggcacgg tcgagatgct gaccgtacgg tcgggccgcc tcacgctcgt cgtcgacggc 900 gaggagcacg aggtcgccgc cggcacctcg gccaccttcg aggccgacgc cccgcacacc 960 taccgcaacg acggcaccga gcccgtcgag atgacgatgg tggtggccgt cccgcccgcg 1020 ggctgacccc cgagcgcacg gggcccgccg ggagacgtcg agcgacgctc tcccggcggg 1080 cccctgtgcg tggtggctcc gtgcgccggt gaagacggtg ctcccgaagg cggtgctccc 1140 gaaggcggtg ttccggaagg cggtgctccc gaagacggtg ctcctgaaag cggagtgaaa 1200 ccgtagtgaa agcggacgct cctagtgtcg ttctcaccgg gaaccgactg gatggggaaa 1260 cgggccatga aaagtgccaa ggaaccgacg atctaccagg acgtggatat catccgccgc 1320 atccaggagc tcatggttct gtgctccttg ctgccgcccg acggcaagct gcgtgaagcg 1380 ctggagttcg ctctctcgct ccacgaggag ccggtactgg cccggatcac tcccctcacc 1440 aatctccatc ccttcgcgac gaaagcctgg ctggagtccc tgtggctcgg cgacggcgtt 1500 tccagcgagg agaaggagct ggtcgcctgg cagaacaaca gcgacaacat gggaccggcc 1560 attcgtgaac tcaagaatgc cgaacagcaa tccggcatca ggctggtcgc acagctgacg 1620 tcctgacacc cgccgggtgc cgggattcac ctcaacatcg gaggtaagcc atgaccgctt 1680 cgattcttca gcagtccgtc gtggacgccg acttccgcgc ggcgctgctc gagaaccccg 1740 ccgccttcgg cgcttccgcc gcggccctgc ccacgcccgt cgaggcccag gaccaggcgt 1800 cccttgactt ctggaccaag gacatcgccg ccacggaagc cttcgcctgc cgccagagct 1860 gcagcttcgg cccgttcacc ttcgtgtgcg acggcaacac caagtaagtg gctgctgcct 1920 ctaggcggta atgctcgccc ggtgcgatga cgcggtgggc cggtgacctg ccggcccacc 1980 gcgttgcgcc gcgcggcggc gcccctgcca cgagggtcac gaggctcctt cgacttcgac 2040 cgcaggagaa attcgcatat gggtatgggt aacgcgtatc cgctggacat cgcagcacgg 2100 gcggccaatc tgaccgaacg gttacgggtc gtggccgcgg cgggcggcga ggcggccgtg 2160 cgggacaaca cggtcgagct cgacgccttc gaccgctgga aggccgacac gctggccgga 2220 aaactggccg acaagttcca ccaggaatcg ctccaccgcg gccggccgcc ccagcacacc 2280 aaggacgaac tcgccggcgt gctgtccgcc taccgtcgtc tggaactcgg cctggacacc 2340 gcggacgacg acgtccggac gcttctcggc gagctgcaga gcgcctggct gcccgcctac 2400 cgtgcggccc tcgacgccca cgacgccgcc cgcgacgacg aacgggccga cgcacagccg 2460 ggcgaggagc ccggctggcg cgggttcgac gtgtactacg gccggctggc gaaggcgtgc 2520 gagccgttcc tgcgcgaact gggtcgcggc ctgggcgccg cgcgcgacgc cgcacagggc 2580 gaaggcgccg cgctctcccc gcagttggcc gaggacatcc agcgccacct gctcgaccgc 2640 ttcgagctga gcctggcctg ggccgtggag gccgacgcca acgtgcactg cacgcaggcc 2700 gggatcgaca aggccgaggc cacccgcgag gactacctcg cctacctcga caccacgttc 2760 tccgacagcg ccgcctacca ccgcttctac ctgaagttcc ccgtgctcgg ccgctggctc 2820 gcccacacca ccgccctgct caccgcgttc ggccgcgacc tcttcgacag cctggccgcc 2880 gacgcggagg ccatcggcac cgaattcttc gggcagcccg tcaccgcgtt cacctcgctg 2940 cgcctcggcg actccgaccc ccacgcgggc gcgcgcaccg tcgcccgcgt cgccgtcgtg 3000 ctcgccgacg gacgcaccgg cgaattcttc tacaagccgc gcagcgtccg gtccgaggcg 3060 gcgctccagg acgtcctcgc caggctggcg gacgacgggg tcgtcgactt cgcgacccgg 3120 cccgtcctgc cccgggacgg ctacggctac gaggcgctga tccccgccgg ccgcaaccgc 3180 gtcgagaccc ccgaagaagt cacccggatc taccgggaac tgggcggcta cctggcgctg 3240 ttctacgtcc tgggcggcag cgacctccac ttcgagaacg tcatcgtcgc cgacggacac 3300 gccttcgtct gcgacgccga gaccgtcctc ggcgtccacc cccaggggcg ggcacagtcg 3360 gagggcaccc tcctcgactc cgtcttcaag accggactcc tcgaatggcc gcgcgccgcg 3420 agcccgggcg aggaggccgc cgccgagatg cgcatcagcg gctacgcggg cggcgagggc 3480 tacgacgtcc ccgtcccggt ggcccgccgc accggcgagg ggctcacctt cgcggcctcc 3540 gtcgtgcaca agaccggcgt ccacgtcgag accagcgcct ccaaccgcgt ctacctcggc 3600 gaggagctcg tgcgtcccga ggaccacgtc gagtcgatca tggagggctt caaccgcgtc 3660 tacgactggt tcgccgagga ccccgacgcg tccgtcgact acctgatgga gacgttcagc 3720 tgggtcaccg cccgcttcat caactggggc acccagatct acgcccagct gctgagcgcc 3780 gcccgccacc cgcgctgcct caccgaaccc ctcgaagtgg acctgctcgc caacaccgtc 3840 cgcaccttcc cccgcacctg ggacgccgag ggcgtcctgg ccggacggga agtggccgcc 3900 atgtggcaga tggacgtgcc gctgttcacc gcggccgccc acgccaggca actcgtccac 3960 gggcacggcg acccgctgtc cgcgcgcctg gacagctccc cgatcgacca cgcggccgcc 4020 cgcatccggc ggctgtcgca gcggaaccgt gaacagcaga gccagtacat cgccgccagc 4080 ctctcgaccg gcgagatcag cagccccgcc ttcgtcgcca cctccctgga ctacgcggcc 4140 aggatcggcg accgcctgtg cgacgagctg cgggcccccg ccgcccccgc cccctggacc 4200 tcctaccagc tgtccggcga gtccctcgcc gaagtggaca tcgaggccga cctctaccag 4260 ggctccgccg gcgtcgtcct cttcctcgcc tacctcgacc agctcgtgcc ccgccccgcg 4320 taccgcaagg ccgcccggca ggccctcgac cacgtcctcg tccactggga ccgcgaccgg 4380 ctcggcgcct tcgccggact cggcggcgtc gtctacctcc tcacccacct gcaccgcctg 4440 tggggcgacg aggagctcct cgacctggcc gtgcggctca gcgacgagct gcccgcgcgc 4500 atcgacgagg accggcactt cgacatcctg cacggcgcgg ccggcctcat ccccgtcctg 4560 ctcggcctgg cccaggagac cggcggccac ggcatcgagc acgcccaccg ctgcgccgaa 4620 cacctgctgc gccacgccga ggacgacggc accaccctca gctggccccc ctccgcggcc 4680 gacgagacgt acggcaacct caccggcttc tcgcacggct ccggcggcat cggctgggcg 4740 ctcatccagc tcggccggca caccggccgg tccgactaca tcgaggccgg gcgcaaggcg 4800 ttcgcctacg aggaccggca cgtcgacgag caggagaagg actggtacga cctgcggatc 4860 aacaacggat ccgcggtcaa gggcgcccgt cacttctcca acgcctggtg caacggcgcg 4920 gcgggcatcg gcctcgcccg catcagcagc tgggccgcgc tcgaccgcag cgacgaacaa 4980 ctgctgcgcg acgcacagca ggccctgtcg gcgaccctcc ggaacttccc ccgcctgaag 5040 aaccacaccc tgtgccacgg cacctccggc aacgccgaac tcctcctgcg cttcgcccgg 5100 ctgagcgacg aacccgcctt ccagctggag gccaacgtcc aggtccaggc gctgtggcgg 5160 agcctcgacg aggccggcgg cggcgccggc gggggcagcg ccgacttctt cccgggactg 5220 atgatcggca tctccgggtt cggcatgcac ttcctgcgac tggcggcccc ggaccgcgtc 5280 ccgtccgtgc tgctcctcga cccgccgtcg caccacgaac agtaaggagt ggctccacca 5340 tggccctgaa gacctgcgag gaattcctgc gcgacgccct cgacccggcc cggttcgggc 5400 gcgagatgaa ggcggtcacg gaggtaccgg agatcgtcga gctcggccgc cgccacggct 5460 acggcttcac cgcggaggag ttcctgacga aggccatgac cttcgacggc acggcggcgg 5520 gcggcacggc cgcgggcggc ccggaggcgg gcgggcaaca ggccccccgg cagaccccgc 5580 cccccgggac ccctgcgaac ggcgcgccgg caccggccac cgccaccagc ttcgcccact 5640 acgagtaccg tctggacgac ctcccggagt tcgcgcccgt cgtggccgag ctgccccggc 5700 tcaaggtcat gccaccctcc gcccgcctgg accggttcgc cgggcacttc cgcgaggagg 5760 acgcccggac cgtctccacc tcgcccgccg accccgccta ccaggcatgg caccgcgacc 5820 tcgccgcgcg gggctggcag gacgagggcg ccgcgcccgg cgccccgcgc cgcgacttcc 5880 acctcgtcaa cctggacgaa cacgtcgact acccgggcta cgaggactac ttcgccgcga 5940 agacgcgggt cgtggccgcc ctggagaacc tcttcggcgg cgaggtgcgg gcctcgggct 6000 ccatgtggta tccgccgtcg agctaccggc tctggcacac caacgcggac cagccgggat 6060 ggcgcatgta cctggtggac gtggaccggc ccttcgccga ccccggccag acctccttct 6120 tccgctacct ccacccgcgc acccgcgaga tcgtcaccct caccgagagc ccgcgcatcg 6180 tgcgcttctt caaggtggag caggacccgg agaagctctt ctggcactgc atcgccaacc 6240 ccacggaccg gcaccgctgg agcttcggct acgtcgtgcc ggagacctgg atggacgccc 6300 tccgccacca cggctgaccc ggcacccgtc gtccgcgcac cgcgcggcac caaggaggag 6360 cgatgttcgg agcaggaccg cggacggcgc gggggcccgc ggcggggacg gacggcgacg 6420 ccgcccaccg aagcggccgg ccggcaccgg ccgccggggc cgctggcggc ccgacggccg 6480 ggtccggtcc gccggccgtc ctggcgcggg ggctgggcaa gtcgtacgcg ggagtggaag 6540 ccgtgcgcgg catcgacctg accgtcgccc agggcgagac cttcggcttc ctcggcccca 6600 acggggcggg caagaccacg acgatctcga tgctgaccac cctcgccacg cccaccacgg 6660 gccggatcga gatcgcgggc cacgacaccc gcaccgcacc ccagcaggtg cgccgcaacc 6720 tcgggctggt cttccaggag accacgctcg acccggagct gacggccgtg gagaacctgc 6780 gcttccacgc cgacctctac gcactgccgc gggccggcct ggccgggcgc atcgccgaga 6840 tgctggagct cgtcgggctc tccgcccgcg gcgacagcct cgggcgcacc ttctccggcg 6900 gcatgcagcg ccgcctggag atcgcccgcg gcctgctgca ccggccgcgc ctgctcttcc 6960 tcgacgagcc gaccatcggg ctcgacccgc agacccgcgc ccaggtgtgg gcgcacctgg 7020 ccgaggtccg cgagcgcgag gcgacgacca tcttcctcac cacgcactac ctcgacgagg 7080 ccgagcagtg cgaccgcatc gccatcatcg acgacggccg gatcgtcgcc cagggcagcc 7140 cggccgagct gaagtccgtc atcggcgcgg accgggtgga cctgcgcacc ggtgacgaca 7200 tggccgcggc cgccctgctg cacgagcgct tcggcctggc ggcggtccgg ggcccgaacg 7260 gcctgagcgt caaggtcgcg gaaggcgccc ggctcgtccc ggcgctgtgc gccgccctcg 7320 acgtggccgt ctacgaggtg acggtcaccc gccccagcct cgacgacgtc ttcctccacc 7380 acacggggcg cggcatccgt gacgacgccc tgcccggcgc ggcgggcacg gcaggcacag 7440 ccgaaccgtc ggactcagga gacagcacat gacgcacgcc acggtcgccc tgcccgcggc 7500 cgaccgccac gcccccggcc ggctcgccgc cgaatggcgc gcgggcagca tggtgtggcg 7560 gcgcgaaatg atccacttcc tgcgctcgcg cgccgggatc gccgtctccc tgctgcagcc 7620 gctgctgttc ctctacgtgc tgggcatcgg cctgtcccgg atgttcagcg gcgccggctc 7680 gtcggacgac tacatgatct tcctcttccc cggtgtgctg gtgatggcgg cacaggcccc 7740 ggcgatctcg gtgggagcct cgatcgtctg ggaccggcag agcggcttcc tgcgcgagat 7800 gctggtggcc cccgtccgcc gcagcaccct gctgatcggc aagtgcctgg gcggcgccac 7860 cgtcgccgcc tgccagggcg cggtcgtcct ggccagcgcg ggcctggtgg gcgtgcccta 7920 ccgcgtcgac ctcttcgccg ccctgctggc cgaactcctg ctcgcctccc tggcgatgac 7980 ggtcctcggc gcggtgatcg ccgtgcggat ccagcggatc cagacgttcc acacagcgct 8040 gaccgtcctg acggcaccga tggtcttcct gtcggggctg atgttccccg tcagcgccat 8100 gccggcctgg atggcggcgc tcaccctggt caaccccctg acctacgccg tggacgccat 8160 gcgtcagacg atcacggcct tccaccccgc gcccgcggcc ggggcatcgg gtgcgcccat 8220 cttcgacccc gtctcctggg gcggctggga cgtaccgccg ggcctgtcgg tggtgctggt 8280 ggccgtgttc tcggccctgg ccctggcggc ggcctcccgg cgcttctccc gcaccgactg 8340 acggcgttcg cggaccgact gaaaacaccg tcgttcccac gcgtccaacc gtggatcatc 8400 actcacgtcc agcgcccgga ttcacatctg aggagacatc accatgcgta gcaccagacg 8460 cctttcgtta cgtcgccgtt ccgccctgct gatgggcgcc gcctccctcg cggcgccggc 8520 gctgctgacg gtccaggccg gcgaggcgca ggcgttcggc acgatcaact cgctgggcca 8580 gcgcgccgag cacgagcgca tcacccgggc ggcgctggcc tgcgccgccg gcacgtcgtc 8640 cgacggatcg tgcttcgagg cccggtcgat cgatcaagtg gccggtcaca cggggacgtt 8700 cggggccgtc gggtcgccgg actcggacga gatcttcacc cccgaggcgc actgcgacga 8760 cgccgactac ctcacggcct ccggctaccc gcgcacccgt cagcaggcca gcgaccagct 8820 cgtcgcctgc atatccaagc tgcagggacg tttcagccag ggcgtcgccg ccggctcggg 8880 caccctgaac ggggacggca cggtctcccc gggcaacagc gacctgtccc aggactgcac 8940 cttcaccggc ggcgtccccg ggcgcggcaa gtgcaacgcc atcgagggct tcggccgggc 9000 cctgcacggt gtgcaggact tctactcgca cagcaactgg gcggacaagg cggaccccaa 9060 ccaggccgtg ggcgtcaaca acccgcccgg cctcaacatg tcgggccccg ccccactgct 9120 ctcgctcaag agcggccgcc ctccggcggc ctcctcggtg ccggcgcagc tgtccacggg 9180 ctgtttctcg ctcaacccct ggggctgctc gggccgggtg acccacagca ccctcaacaa 9240 ggacaccggc ctgatcgacc cggccagcgg cgccaccagt gacccgacga cgaaccgcgg 9300 caggatcacc ggcaacttcg accgcgccgt caagggtgcc attgccgaca cccgccgtca 9360 gtgggccgac ttccggaccg cgctgaccga gcgctacggc caggagcgcg gccagcgcat 9420 cgcctgcgtc ctgacgcacg acaaccccgt gcgcgactgc cgctgatccc tcgcggcccc 9480 gcgtcccgcc ggcccggtgc tccgcgccgg gccggccggc acgcaccgga ccggtcctcg 9540 cgggtcaggc gtcgccgtac gcctcgccgc cgagctccag cacggccgtc ccggcggtgg 9600 tgtccgccag ccaggcccgg aacccctcga cgtcggcctc gggcagcccg atcccgatgc 9660 gcacgccctc gccgtaggcc acctcgcgca cctcgcgccc ggtggcccgc aggtcgttct 9720 gcagcttccc ggcccgctgg tggtcgaccg tgaccgtggc cagccggaag cgcttgtggg 9780 tcaccgtgcc gagctcgtcg agggcctcgc cgaccactcc gccgtacgcc cggatcagac 9840 cgcccgcgcc gagcttgacg ccgccgaagt agcgggtgac gaccgccacg acgtagcgca 9900 tgtcgcgccg gaggagcatc tgcagcatgg gcacgcccgc ggtgcccccg ggctcgccgt 9960 cgtcgctggc cttctggacc gagccgtcgg cgccgaggac gtacgcccag cagtggtgcc 10020 gcgcggtcgg gtgctccttg cggatgcgcg cgaggaacgc ctgcgcctcc tcctcggtgg 10080 cggcgggcgc gagcgcgcag atgaagcgcg acctgctgat ctcgatctcg tgcacgcctt 10140 cgagcgcgac cgtgcggtac tcgtcctgca ttccgccagc ctagacgtct ccgcggcgcc 10200 gcccggaccc gggaatggtc cggcgaccta gatcgttgag ccggcatgtt cgcagaaccg 10260 gggatcatcc agaagatcat cgaggggacc ggcgacacct gggcgctggt cggcctctcc 10320 gccaacgagc agcgcgccgc gtacggcgtc gccgaggtgc tccagcgcca cggcaagcgc 10380 atcgttcccg tccaccccaa ggccgagacg gtccacggcg agctgggcta cgcctccctc 10440 gccgacatcc ccttcgacgt cgacgtcgtg gacgtcttcg tccggtccga gctcgcgggt 10500 gccgtcgcgg acgaggcggt agagatcggc gccaaggccg tctggttcca gctcggggtg 10560 atcgacgagg aggcgtacga ccgcacgcgc ggggcgggcc tgctgatggt catggaccgc 10620 tgcccggcga tcgaactcgg ccggccgcgg ggacgggcgg tctgacatct tcctgcgaag 10680 gtctccgcga acggttgtgc gaccatgccg gattcccttg gaatgtgctc ctcagtcctt 10740 ttggtcaagg agtacagatg cgcaagtccc ttgctgttgc ggccgcttcg gcggttgccg 10800 gcctcacgct gatggccggc accccggcga acgcggcgcc ggccgccgcc accaccgtac 10860 cgagctgtgt gacgtctacc ttctcgacgc cgttcttcgc gatggtccgc gtcgacatgg 10920 agaacaagtg caccaccgag cagcgggtga agccgtcgtt caactacgag ctgaaggacg 10980 ttccgtgcta cgccctgcag cccggtcaga aggcggtgtt cagccgggac gtgatcttcg 11040 cctccgggta cacgttcgcc ggcctcgtca gctgctgaca cccggcccgt agcggtcacg 11100 gctcacaccg tcacaccgtc agtcccgcgt cgcgggcgca cagcgccgcc tgcaccctgt 11160 tgccgacctc cagggcggcc aggatgcggc tgacgtgagc cttgaccgtg ctctcccgca 11220 tgcccaggcc gtcggcgatc tccgcattgg aggcgccggc ggccaggagc cccaggacgt 11280 ccgactcgcg gggggtcagc cgcgccaggc gctgctgggc ggcttggaca tcgcgggacg 11340 ccgtgcggtg gtagcggtcg accagacggc gggccgcggc ggggtggagc atggcctggc 11400 ccgccgcgac gacctgtatc gcccggatga tctcggccgg atcggtgtcc ttgaggagga 11460 agcccgaggc gccggccgcc agcgcgtcgt acacgtactg gtcgaggtcg aacgtggtca 11520 gcatgacgac ttccggcggg ctgggcagcg cgcgcagccg ctcggtggcc gctatcccgt 11580 ccatgcgcgg catccggacg tccatcaggg ccacgtccac gcgcagggca ccggcccgct 11640 ggacggcttc gaggccgtcg cccgcctgtg ccacgacctc aatgccgggg acgtcgtcga 11700 ggatgtcggc gagggccagc cggaccaggc tgtcgtcgtc gacgatcaat gtacggatca 11760 tgccgctccc ggcgcgaggt gttcttcgac agtgctgacg gggatgtcgg cggcgatgtt 11820 ccagccaccg ccccccgaag gtccgtagtc cagccggccg cccagcgccg tgacgcgctc 11880 ggccagtccg accagcccgt agccgctgct gaccggcggc tccccggcgg cggacgccgg 11940 gtcgccggcg cggttgtgca cctcgacgct ggaggccggg ggaccgtagc gcacgacgac 12000 ccgcacgggg gccccgggag cgtgcttgcg ggcgttggtc agcgcctcct gcaccagccg 12060 gtggacggcg aggcggtgac tggccgggag cggcccggcc gcgccctcga cgaccgcgtc 12120 gatctcctgg ccggccgcgc gcgcctcgtc gaagagggcg ggcagctcgc gcagccccgg 12180 gacgcgctgc ccctgcagct ccgggtggtc gggatcgcgc aggacgccca ggacgtcccg 12240 caggtcgccc agggcctcgg tggaagtggt gcgcagcagt gcgagccggt ccgccacggg 12300 ctcgggaagg gtggcggccc gccgctgcag ggctccggcg tgcagggcca gcaggctcag 12360 ccggtgggcg agcacgtcgt gcatctcggc ggcgatgcgg gcccgttcgc tcagccgcgc 12420 ctgcttggcg cgcagctcgc gctcgacgcg caggtgctcg acctgcgccg tcaggctcgc 12480 ctccagccgc ctacggctgt ccgcccacag ccccagcacc atgacgaggg cgaacggcag 12540 cacggggccg tacgcacggg tgctccacag caactgctcc ggctgcgcga accagttgcc 12600 ggccagcgcc accgcggcac acgcacagcc cagcgcgcgc cacccgcgcg aggcgaggta 12660 gaagagcatg accagcaggg gcagcagggc gcccaccacg accgcggcgc agacggtcac 12720 caccaccgtg accaacggga cgcggtagcg caccgccaag gagaggctgc cgacggcggc 12780 gacggccgtg tccgggcccc acagcgtggc gccggccccc acgtaggcgt tctgtacggc 12840 cagcacaccc acggcggcga ccagcagcgc ctccgcccat cccggccacc ttcggtcgtc 12900 cgcactcagc acgggtaaat cgtagtcacc caccgttttt gatccctccg ccagtcggcc 12960 tacgctaccc cctactttcg taccgatcga gcgtcgcaca acggccgatg gtgcgccccg 13020 cggcggcccc tagtttcatg gtcatggatc tgacgcaagc caactccacg cccgtacagc 13080 cgcgttcggc caccgggctg gccttcctcc gcgaggcgac ccgcaccttc cgcaccaccg 13140 gcgcgatcgc gccgagcagc cggcagctcg ccgagcggct ggccgcgccc ctcgcccctg 13200 cgagcagact gcgccggccc accgcggtgc tggaggtcgg cgccggcacg gggccggtga 13260 cccgggttct ggccggtgcc gtgggccccg ccgaccggct cgacgtcgtc gagatcaacc 13320 cccgcttcgt cgagatcctc aacggcgccc tgcgcacgga ccccgccatg tcggcggcct 13380 cggaccgcat ccggatcatc cccgagtcga tcaccgagat gcccatcgac cacagctacg 13440 acgtcgtcgt ctcctgcctg ccgttcacca acttcgcgcc ggagacggtc aggtccatcc 13500 tggaccgcta cctgtcggtg ctcgtgccgg gcggacacct gacgttcttc ggctacctcg 13560 gcacccacgc cacccgctcg ctgctcagca gccggaagga ggccgcccgc caccgcgaag 13620 tgaccgacct gctgcacgac ttcacccgcc gctacgccag ccggcagagt gtcgtgtggc 13680 gcaacatccc gcccgcccgg gtgtggcacg tgcgcgcccc cgagcacgcc acccgggcgg 13740 cggacgccgc ctgatgccca ccgcggacga gctgttgcac ggagtgccgc ccgcggccgc 13800 gtacggtctc gtgctcggcc tggtgctcct cgaatcggtg ctgctgctcg gttcgttcgt 13860 gcccacgctc agcctgatgc tgtgcgccgg ggtcctggca caggagggaa cgctgcggct 13920 gcccctggtg gtgctgtgcg ccacgacggg ggtggtggcc ggtgacctgc tcgcgcagcg 13980 caccgggcgc cgcctcggcc ccggcctgcg gcgctcccgg ctggggaggc ggctgcccga 14040 ggcggcctgg gagcgcgcct ggtcggtgct ccagcgccgc ggcggccccg cgctgctggt 14100 ctgccgcttc gtgccggtcg tgcggacctt cgcgccgcac ctggcgggcg ccgccggcat 14160 gccgtaccgg cggctggccc cgtacagcct ggtggcgggc ctggtctggg cgggcgggga 14220 agccggtgcg ggatacgtgc tgggcgcctc ctacgaccgg ctgaccgcgc cgggcggcgg 14280 gctgcccacg gtctgcgccg ccgccggcgt cctgctggcg gcagcggcgg ggctgctcgt 14340 gcaccgccgg cgcgcgcgcc gggcggtggg cggctcaggc cgagcgggcc agcgacaggc 14400 tgacgtcggt gcgcaggatc gcgacgtgca gatgacgcag ctcgcgcccg gggtccaccc 14460 cgagctcgtc gcggaagacg ccgctgacct ccgcgtacgc ggccagggcc tcgcccctgc 14520 ggccgcagcg gtagagggcg agcatcagcc gctgccacag gctctcgcgc agcgggtact 14580 tcgcggtcag cgtccgcagg tcgccgacga tctcgtcgtg gcggccgagg gcgaggcagg 14640 cgtcgtggta gcgctcgatg gcccggatcc actcctccat cagccccggc accacgtccc 14700 ggtggagcgc gtccgagcgc acgccgccga gcggctggcc gtgccagagg gccagtgcct 14760 cggtgagggc ggagtgctcc agtgcgcggt cgccgagctc ggcggcgagc cgggcgcggg 14820 cggcggattc acggaaaaga gtgagatcca gacagccggt ggggacctcg atcaggtaac 14880 cgctgggcga ggtgtgcagc agtccggaga gccccgcgcc ggctgcgtcc aggctctgtc 14940 gtaagcgggt gaggagggtg tgcagggcgg ggcgcgggct gtgcggcagc tcgtcgcccc 15000 acaccaggtc cacgagtttc tcgaccggga cgatctcgcc cgggtgcacg agcagggccg 15060 ccaggaggga ccgttgccgg ccgctgggta gcgaaacgtt tttcctgccc accgtgacgc 15120 tcagtggtcc gagaactcgg aaggatattg cccggttcat gaactctccc cttcgctcat 15180 cgagccgcac cctgaagacg gctggggact gccgtgtccg ctgtccactc aagcggacgt 15240 cgcggtcagc aagcgtacgg tgcgtacaga gttggttgtc aactatggcg tatgaatgtc 15300 agggttgtct ggcgttatcc atacgctcaa gcggacagaa acagtcgacc gggcaacaac 15360 tcccggggga gggacggggc atgagcgaca gtcgaccggc accggaccgc aacgaccggc 15420 cacttctgcg ccagttcgac cagcggctca gtgaactgat cgccaccacc gccggggccg 15480 aggggaacaa gcgccccgga tacgcgcgcc tggccaagga gatccgcgac accaccggcc 15540 ggaccatctc cggcacctac ctgtgggagc tggccaccgg gaagaagcgc aacgtcacgc 15600 tcgaacagct cgacgtcctc gcggagttct tcggtgtgcc cccggagtac ttcctcgacg 15660 acgagaccgg ccgccgcatc gacgaccgcc gaagactggc catcgccctg cgcgacgcca 15720 aggtgcgcaa cctcgccctg cgcgcggacg ggctctcgcc cgactgcctg gacgcgctga 15780 tcgccatggt gaacgaggcg cgcaagaccc agaacctgtc gtccatcgac gatgacgacg 15840 acaccgccac cacccttact tcttcagggt agtcaacgac ccgacgccgg tcccgtgggc 15900 ctggaggacc gatgccacgc cgtacgtacg tcgcctaccg ccgctgcctg agaaagggtc 15960 aacgggaacc cgagatgccg tacacgagcg acgccgccct ccgtcgacgc tgccgggccc 16020 tgctggcccg cgtcagcctg cccgagccgt tctccgtcga ggtcctgtgc cggcacctcg 16080 gcgaacagcg cggccggccc atccacctgc acccgctgcc ggaacaggcc gccctggccg 16140 gggcctgcgg cctgtggctc gccaccgcca ccgacgacca catcttccac gagcgccaca 16200 ccgtccgccc gcaccaggag cacatcgtcc tccacgagat cggccacatg ctcttcgacc 16260 accactcgct ggccccggcc ggcggcccgg cgggcgccct cctggccgac ctcgaccccc 16320 ggctcatccg ccgtctcctc gcgcgcacca actactccac gcgccaggaa cgcgaggcgg 16380 agatgctcgc cagcctgatc cgcaccagcg tccgcgccgg caccggggaa cggccgccgg 16440 gcgcgctggg ccggctgcag gcggcgctgg gcgtggtcgg gtcccatggc cgctgacgtc 16500 ctcgattccg tcctggggac caccgggctg gtgtgcctgt ggaccgcggt ggtcctgcga 16560 tgtccctacg ccgtgcgcca ccccgcacag cgcggactgt ggctggcggt ggccacggcg 16620 gccctggcga tgaccctcac cacctccatc ggctccgtcg tccccgaagc ggcgctcggg 16680 ctcgccggca acctcaccgg catggtctcc gcgggcgccg tcctcggctt cgtcatcacg 16740 atcatgggcg ggcggcgcct gcacacctgg gcctgcggca cggtcgccgc cacggccctc 16800 gccctgaccg tcctcggcgt cacctcccgg gcccacctct cctacggcac catcgccgag 16860 atcccgccca ccgccaccgc ctaccggctg ctgctgatcg gcacccacct ggccgtgaac 16920 gcggcctgca tcgcggtgtg ctggcggtac gggagggggc ccagccgctc cccgctcgcc 16980 ctcggcctgc ggctcttcgg catcggcacc gtcctggcgg agctgtactg gctgcgcctg 17040 ttcgccggcc tcttcaccac ctccgacgcc ctcctgcggt acc 17083 <210> SEQ ID NO 5 <211> LENGTH: 1135 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Probe 1.1 <400> SEQUENCE: 5 ctgcagccgc tgctgttcct ctacgtgctg ggcatcggcc tgtcccggat gttcagcggc 60 gccggctcgt cggacgacta catgatcttc ctcttccccg gtgtgctggt gatggcggca 120 caggccccgg cgatctcggt gggagcctcg atcgtctggg accggcagag cggcttcctg 180 cgcgagatgc tggtggcccc cgtccgccgc agcaccctgc tgatcggcaa gtgcctgggc 240 ggcgccaccg tcgccgcctg ccagggcgcg gtcgtcctgg ccagcgcggg cctggtgggc 300 gtgccctacc gcgtcgacct cttcgccgcc ctgctggccg aactcctgct cgcctccctg 360 gcgatgacgg tcctcggcgc ggtgatcgcc gtgcggatcc agcggatcca gacgttccac 420 acagcgctga ccgtcctgac ggcaccgatg gtcttcctgt cggggctgat gttccccgtc 480 agcgccatgc cggcctggat ggcggcgctc accctggtca accccctgac ctacgccgtg 540 gacgccatgc gtcagacgat cacggccttc caccccgcgc ccgcggccgg ggcatcgggt 600 gcgcccatct tcgaccccgt ctcctggggc ggctgggacg taccgccggg cctgtcggtg 660 gtgctggtgg ccgtgttctc ggccctggcc ctggcggcgg cctcccggcg cttctcccgc 720 accgactgac ggcgttcgcg gaccgactga aaacaccgtc gttcccacgc gtccaaccgt 780 ggatcatcac tcacgtccag cgcccggatt cacatctgag gagacatcac catgcgtagc 840 accagacgcc tttcgttacg tcgccgttcc gccctgctga tgggcgccgc ctccctcgcg 900 gcgccggcgc tgctgacggt ccaggccggc gaggcgcagg cgttcggcac gatcaactcg 960 ctgggccagc gcgccgagca cgagcgcatc acccgggcgg cgctggcctg cgccgccggc 1020 acgtcgtccg acggatcgtg cttcgaggcc cggtcgatcg atcaagtggc cggtcacacg 1080 gggacgttcg gggccgtcgg gtcgccggac tcggacgaga tcccccgggc tgcag 1135 <210> SEQ ID NO 6 <211> LENGTH: 114 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 6 Met Thr Pro Val Phe Ala Leu Ala Thr Ser Leu Met Trp Gly Leu Ala 1 5 10 15 Asp Phe Gly Gly Gly Leu Leu Thr Arg Arg Met Pro Ala Leu Thr Val 20 25 30 Val Leu Val Ser Gln Leu Leu Ala Val Leu Ala Leu Gly Ala Ile Val 35 40 45 Ile Gly Thr Gly Gly Trp Ser Glu Ala Gly Pro Gln Leu Trp Tyr Ala 50 55 60 Val Ala Ala Gly Val Val Gly Pro Ala Ala Met Leu Ala Phe Tyr Lys 65 70 75 80 Ala Leu Ala Leu Gly Pro Met Gly Val Val Ser Pro Leu Gly Ala Leu 85 90 95 Gly Gly Val Ala Val Pro Leu Gly Val Gly Leu Val Leu Gly Glu Arg 100 105 110 Pro Gly <210> SEQ ID NO 7 <211> LENGTH: 190 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 7 Met Thr Asp Leu Asp Gln Leu Thr Gln Ser Leu Ala Arg Asn Leu Lys 1 5 10 15 Arg Trp Arg Gly Glu Arg His Phe Thr Leu Asp Ala Leu Ala Ala Arg 20 25 30 Ser Gly Val Ser Arg Gly Met Ile Ile Gln Ile Glu Gln Ala Arg Thr 35 40 45 Asn Pro Ser Val Gly Thr Thr Val Lys Leu Ala Asp Ala Leu Gly Val 50 55 60 Ser Ile Thr Thr Leu Leu Asp Tyr Glu Gln Gly Ala Arg Val Arg Leu 65 70 75 80 Val Pro Glu Glu Gln Val Val Arg Met Trp Ser Thr Glu Ala Gly Ser 85 90 95 His Thr Ser Leu Leu Val Gly Ala Asp Val Arg Gly Pro Leu Glu Leu 100 105 110 Trp Asp Trp Arg Leu Val Ser Gly Asp Ser Ser Val Ser Asp Pro His 115 120 125 Pro Pro Gly Thr Val Glu Met Leu Thr Val Arg Ser Gly Arg Leu Thr 130 135 140 Leu Val Val Asp Gly Glu Glu His Glu Val Ala Ala Gly Thr Ser Ala 145 150 155 160 Thr Phe Glu Ala Asp Ala Pro His Thr Tyr Arg Asn Asp Gly Thr Glu 165 170 175 Pro Val Glu Met Thr Met Val Val Ala Val Pro Pro Ala Gly 180 185 190 <210> SEQ ID NO 8 <211> LENGTH: 29 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 8 Met Lys Thr Val Leu Pro Lys Ala Val Leu Pro Lys Ala Val Phe Arg 1 5 10 15 Lys Ala Val Leu Pro Lys Thr Val Leu Leu Lys Ala Glu 20 25 <210> SEQ ID NO 9 <211> LENGTH: 119 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 9 Met Lys Ser Ala Lys Glu Pro Thr Ile Tyr Gln Asp Val Asp Ile Ile 1 5 10 15 Arg Arg Ile Gln Glu Leu Met Val Leu Cys Ser Leu Leu Pro Pro Asp 20 25 30 Gly Lys Leu Arg Glu Ala Leu Glu Phe Ala Leu Ser Leu His Glu Glu 35 40 45 Pro Val Leu Ala Arg Ile Thr Pro Leu Thr Asn Leu His Pro Phe Ala 50 55 60 Thr Lys Ala Trp Leu Glu Ser Leu Trp Leu Gly Asp Gly Val Ser Ser 65 70 75 80 Glu Glu Lys Glu Leu Val Ala Trp Gln Asn Asn Ser Asp Asn Met Gly 85 90 95 Pro Ala Ile Arg Glu Leu Lys Asn Ala Glu Gln Gln Ser Gly Ile Arg 100 105 110 Leu Val Ala Gln Leu Thr Ser 115 <210> SEQ ID NO 10 <211> LENGTH: 78 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 10 Met Thr Ala Ser Ile Leu Gln Gln Ser Val Val Asp Ala Asp Phe Arg 1 5 10 15 Ala Ala Leu Leu Glu Asn Pro Ala Ala Phe Gly Ala Ser Ala Ala Ala 20 25 30 Leu Pro Thr Pro Val Glu Ala Gln Asp Gln Ala Ser Leu Asp Phe Trp 35 40 45 Thr Lys Asp Ile Ala Ala Thr Glu Ala Phe Ala Cys Arg Gln Ser Cys 50 55 60 Ser Phe Gly Pro Phe Thr Phe Val Cys Asp Gly Asn Thr Lys 65 70 75 <210> SEQ ID NO 11 <211> LENGTH: 1088 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 11 Met Gly Met Gly Asn Ala Tyr Pro Leu Asp Ile Ala Ala Arg Ala Ala 1 5 10 15 Asn Leu Thr Glu Arg Leu Arg Val Val Ala Ala Ala Gly Gly Glu Ala 20 25 30 Ala Val Arg Asp Asn Thr Val Glu Leu Asp Ala Phe Asp Arg Trp Lys 35 40 45 Ala Asp Thr Leu Ala Gly Lys Leu Ala Asp Lys Phe His Gln Glu Ser 50 55 60 Leu His Arg Gly Arg Pro Pro Gln His Thr Lys Asp Glu Leu Ala Gly 65 70 75 80 Val Leu Ser Ala Tyr Arg Arg Leu Glu Leu Gly Leu Asp Thr Ala Asp 85 90 95 Asp Asp Val Arg Thr Leu Leu Gly Glu Leu Gln Ser Ala Trp Leu Pro 100 105 110 Ala Tyr Arg Ala Ala Leu Asp Ala His Asp Ala Ala Arg Asp Asp Glu 115 120 125 Arg Ala Asp Ala Gln Pro Gly Glu Glu Pro Gly Trp Arg Gly Phe Asp 130 135 140 Val Tyr Tyr Gly Arg Leu Ala Lys Ala Cys Glu Pro Phe Leu Arg Glu 145 150 155 160 Leu Gly Arg Gly Leu Gly Ala Ala Arg Asp Ala Ala Gln Gly Glu Gly 165 170 175 Ala Ala Leu Ser Pro Gln Leu Ala Glu Asp Ile Gln Arg His Leu Leu 180 185 190 Asp Arg Phe Glu Leu Ser Leu Ala Trp Ala Val Glu Ala Asp Ala Asn 195 200 205 Val His Cys Thr Gln Ala Gly Ile Asp Lys Ala Glu Ala Thr Arg Glu 210 215 220 Asp Tyr Leu Ala Tyr Leu Asp Thr Thr Phe Ser Asp Ser Ala Ala Tyr 225 230 235 240 His Arg Phe Tyr Leu Lys Phe Pro Val Leu Gly Arg Trp Leu Ala His 245 250 255 Thr Thr Ala Leu Leu Thr Ala Phe Gly Arg Asp Leu Phe Asp Ser Leu 260 265 270 Ala Ala Asp Ala Glu Ala Ile Gly Thr Glu Phe Phe Gly Gln Pro Val 275 280 285 Thr Ala Phe Thr Ser Leu Arg Leu Gly Asp Ser Asp Pro His Ala Gly 290 295 300 Ala Arg Thr Val Ala Arg Val Ala Val Val Leu Ala Asp Gly Arg Thr 305 310 315 320 Gly Glu Phe Phe Tyr Lys Pro Arg Ser Val Arg Ser Glu Ala Ala Leu 325 330 335 Gln Asp Val Leu Ala Arg Leu Ala Asp Asp Gly Val Val Asp Phe Ala 340 345 350 Thr Arg Pro Val Leu Pro Arg Asp Gly Tyr Gly Tyr Glu Ala Leu Ile 355 360 365 Pro Ala Gly Arg Asn Arg Val Glu Thr Pro Glu Glu Val Thr Arg Ile 370 375 380 Tyr Arg Glu Leu Gly Gly Tyr Leu Ala Leu Phe Tyr Val Leu Gly Gly 385 390 395 400 Ser Asp Leu His Phe Glu Asn Val Ile Val Ala Asp Gly His Ala Phe 405 410 415 Val Cys Asp Ala Glu Thr Val Leu Gly Val His Pro Gln Gly Arg Ala 420 425 430 Gln Ser Glu Gly Thr Leu Leu Asp Ser Val Phe Lys Thr Gly Leu Leu 435 440 445 Glu Trp Pro Arg Ala Ala Ser Pro Gly Glu Glu Ala Ala Ala Glu Met 450 455 460 Arg Ile Ser Gly Tyr Ala Gly Gly Glu Gly Tyr Asp Val Pro Val Pro 465 470 475 480 Val Ala Arg Arg Thr Gly Glu Gly Leu Thr Phe Ala Ala Ser Val Val 485 490 495 His Lys Thr Gly Val His Val Glu Thr Ser Ala Ser Asn Arg Val Tyr 500 505 510 Leu Gly Glu Glu Leu Val Arg Pro Glu Asp His Val Glu Ser Ile Met 515 520 525 Glu Gly Phe Asn Arg Val Tyr Asp Trp Phe Ala Glu Asp Pro Asp Ala 530 535 540 Ser Val Asp Tyr Leu Met Glu Thr Phe Ser Trp Val Thr Ala Arg Phe 545 550 555 560 Ile Asn Trp Gly Thr Gln Ile Tyr Ala Gln Leu Leu Ser Ala Ala Arg 565 570 575 His Pro Arg Cys Leu Thr Glu Pro Leu Glu Val Asp Leu Leu Ala Asn 580 585 590 Thr Val Arg Thr Phe Pro Arg Thr Trp Asp Ala Glu Gly Val Leu Ala 595 600 605 Gly Arg Glu Val Ala Ala Met Trp Gln Met Asp Val Pro Leu Phe Thr 610 615 620 Ala Ala Ala His Ala Arg Gln Leu Val His Gly His Gly Asp Pro Leu 625 630 635 640 Ser Ala Arg Leu Asp Ser Ser Pro Ile Asp His Ala Ala Ala Arg Ile 645 650 655 Arg Arg Leu Ser Gln Arg Asn Arg Glu Gln Gln Ser Gln Tyr Ile Ala 660 665 670 Ala Ser Leu Ser Thr Gly Glu Ile Ser Ser Pro Ala Phe Val Ala Thr 675 680 685 Ser Leu Asp Tyr Ala Ala Arg Ile Gly Asp Arg Leu Cys Asp Glu Leu 690 695 700 Arg Ala Pro Ala Ala Pro Ala Pro Trp Thr Ser Tyr Gln Leu Ser Gly 705 710 715 720 Glu Ser Leu Ala Glu Val Asp Ile Glu Ala Asp Leu Tyr Gln Gly Ser 725 730 735 Ala Gly Val Val Leu Phe Leu Ala Tyr Leu Asp Gln Leu Val Pro Arg 740 745 750 Pro Ala Tyr Arg Lys Ala Ala Arg Gln Ala Leu Asp His Val Leu Val 755 760 765 His Trp Asp Arg Asp Arg Leu Gly Ala Phe Ala Gly Leu Gly Gly Val 770 775 780 Val Tyr Leu Leu Thr His Leu His Arg Leu Trp Gly Asp Glu Glu Leu 785 790 795 800 Leu Asp Leu Ala Val Arg Leu Ser Asp Glu Leu Pro Ala Arg Ile Asp 805 810 815 Glu Asp Arg His Phe Asp Ile Leu His Gly Ala Ala Gly Leu Ile Pro 820 825 830 Val Leu Leu Gly Leu Ala Gln Glu Thr Gly Gly His Gly Ile Glu His 835 840 845 Ala His Arg Cys Ala Glu His Leu Leu Arg His Ala Glu Asp Asp Gly 850 855 860 Thr Thr Leu Ser Trp Pro Pro Ser Ala Ala Asp Glu Thr Tyr Gly Asn 865 870 875 880 Leu Thr Gly Phe Ser His Gly Ser Gly Gly Ile Gly Trp Ala Leu Ile 885 890 895 Gln Leu Gly Arg His Thr Gly Arg Ser Asp Tyr Ile Glu Ala Gly Arg 900 905 910 Lys Ala Phe Ala Tyr Glu Asp Arg His Val Asp Glu Gln Glu Lys Asp 915 920 925 Trp Tyr Asp Leu Arg Ile Asn Asn Gly Ser Ala Val Lys Gly Ala Arg 930 935 940 His Phe Ser Asn Ala Trp Cys Asn Gly Ala Ala Gly Ile Gly Leu Ala 945 950 955 960 Arg Ile Ser Ser Trp Ala Ala Leu Asp Arg Ser Asp Glu Gln Leu Leu 965 970 975 Arg Asp Ala Gln Gln Ala Leu Ser Ala Thr Leu Arg Asn Phe Pro Arg 980 985 990 Leu Lys Asn His Thr Leu Cys His Gly Thr Ser Gly Asn Ala Glu Leu 995 1000 1005 Leu Leu Arg Phe Ala Arg Leu Ser Asp Glu Pro Ala Phe Gln Leu Glu 1010 1015 1020 Ala Asn Val Gln Val Gln Ala Leu Trp Arg Ser Leu Asp Glu Ala Gly 1025 1030 1035 1040 Gly Gly Ala Gly Gly Gly Ser Ala Asp Phe Phe Pro Gly Leu Met Ile 1045 1050 1055 Gly Ile Ser Gly Phe Gly Met His Phe Leu Arg Leu Ala Ala Pro Asp 1060 1065 1070 Arg Val Pro Ser Val Leu Leu Leu Asp Pro Pro Ser His His Glu Gln 1075 1080 1085 <210> SEQ ID NO 12 <211> LENGTH: 325 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 12 Met Ala Leu Lys Thr Cys Glu Glu Phe Leu Arg Asp Ala Leu Asp Pro 1 5 10 15 Ala Arg Phe Gly Arg Glu Met Lys Ala Val Thr Glu Val Pro Glu Ile 20 25 30 Val Glu Leu Gly Arg Arg His Gly Tyr Gly Phe Thr Ala Glu Glu Phe 35 40 45 Leu Thr Lys Ala Met Thr Phe Asp Gly Thr Ala Ala Gly Gly Thr Ala 50 55 60 Ala Gly Gly Pro Glu Ala Gly Gly Gln Gln Ala Pro Arg Gln Thr Pro 65 70 75 80 Pro Pro Gly Thr Pro Ala Asn Gly Ala Pro Ala Pro Ala Thr Ala Thr 85 90 95 Ser Phe Ala His Tyr Glu Tyr Arg Leu Asp Asp Leu Pro Glu Phe Ala 100 105 110 Pro Val Val Ala Glu Leu Pro Arg Leu Lys Val Met Pro Pro Ser Ala 115 120 125 Arg Leu Asp Arg Phe Ala Gly His Phe Arg Glu Glu Asp Ala Arg Thr 130 135 140 Val Ser Thr Ser Pro Ala Asp Pro Ala Tyr Gln Ala Trp His Arg Asp 145 150 155 160 Leu Ala Ala Arg Gly Trp Gln Asp Glu Gly Ala Ala Pro Gly Ala Pro 165 170 175 Arg Arg Asp Phe His Leu Val Asn Leu Asp Glu His Val Asp Tyr Pro 180 185 190 Gly Tyr Glu Asp Tyr Phe Ala Ala Lys Thr Arg Val Val Ala Ala Leu 195 200 205 Glu Asn Leu Phe Gly Gly Glu Val Arg Ala Ser Gly Ser Met Trp Tyr 210 215 220 Pro Pro Ser Ser Tyr Arg Leu Trp His Thr Asn Ala Asp Gln Pro Gly 225 230 235 240 Trp Arg Met Tyr Leu Val Asp Val Asp Arg Pro Phe Ala Asp Pro Gly 245 250 255 Gln Thr Ser Phe Phe Arg Tyr Leu His Pro Arg Thr Arg Glu Ile Val 260 265 270 Thr Leu Thr Glu Ser Pro Arg Ile Val Arg Phe Phe Lys Val Glu Gln 275 280 285 Asp Pro Glu Lys Leu Phe Trp His Cys Ile Ala Asn Pro Thr Asp Arg 290 295 300 His Arg Trp Ser Phe Gly Tyr Val Val Pro Glu Thr Trp Met Asp Ala 305 310 315 320 Leu Arg His His Gly 325 <210> SEQ ID NO 13 <211> LENGTH: 309 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 13 Met Arg Gly Ile Asp Leu Thr Val Ala Gln Gly Glu Thr Phe Gly Phe 1 5 10 15 Leu Gly Pro Asn Gly Ala Gly Lys Thr Thr Thr Ile Ser Met Leu Thr 20 25 30 Thr Leu Ala Thr Pro Thr Thr Gly Arg Ile Glu Ile Ala Gly His Asp 35 40 45 Thr Arg Thr Ala Pro Gln Gln Val Arg Arg Asn Leu Gly Leu Val Phe 50 55 60 Gln Glu Thr Thr Leu Asp Pro Glu Leu Thr Ala Val Glu Asn Leu Arg 65 70 75 80 Phe His Ala Asp Leu Tyr Ala Leu Pro Arg Ala Gly Leu Ala Gly Arg 85 90 95 Ile Ala Glu Met Leu Glu Leu Val Gly Leu Ser Ala Arg Gly Asp Ser 100 105 110 Leu Gly Arg Thr Phe Ser Gly Gly Met Gln Arg Arg Leu Glu Ile Ala 115 120 125 Arg Gly Leu Leu His Arg Pro Arg Leu Leu Phe Leu Asp Glu Pro Thr 130 135 140 Ile Gly Leu Asp Pro Gln Thr Arg Ala Gln Val Trp Ala His Leu Ala 145 150 155 160 Glu Val Arg Glu Arg Glu Ala Thr Thr Ile Phe Leu Thr Thr His Tyr 165 170 175 Leu Asp Glu Ala Glu Gln Cys Asp Arg Ile Ala Ile Ile Asp Asp Gly 180 185 190 Arg Ile Val Ala Gln Gly Ser Pro Ala Glu Leu Lys Ser Val Ile Gly 195 200 205 Ala Asp Arg Val Asp Leu Arg Thr Gly Asp Asp Met Ala Ala Ala Ala 210 215 220 Leu Leu His Glu Arg Phe Gly Leu Ala Ala Val Arg Gly Pro Asn Gly 225 230 235 240 Leu Ser Val Lys Val Ala Glu Gly Ala Arg Leu Val Pro Ala Leu Cys 245 250 255 Ala Ala Leu Asp Val Ala Val Tyr Glu Val Thr Val Thr Arg Pro Ser 260 265 270 Leu Asp Asp Val Phe Leu His His Thr Gly Arg Gly Ile Arg Asp Asp 275 280 285 Ala Leu Pro Gly Ala Ala Gly Thr Ala Gly Thr Ala Glu Pro Ser Asp 290 295 300 Ser Gly Asp Ser Thr 305 <210> SEQ ID NO 14 <211> LENGTH: 290 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 14 Met Thr His Ala Thr Val Ala Leu Pro Ala Ala Asp Arg His Ala Pro 1 5 10 15 Gly Arg Leu Ala Ala Glu Trp Arg Ala Gly Ser Met Val Trp Arg Arg 20 25 30 Glu Met Ile His Phe Leu Arg Ser Arg Ala Gly Ile Ala Val Ser Leu 35 40 45 Leu Gln Pro Leu Leu Phe Leu Tyr Val Leu Gly Ile Gly Leu Ser Arg 50 55 60 Met Phe Ser Gly Ala Gly Ser Ser Asp Asp Tyr Met Ile Phe Leu Phe 65 70 75 80 Pro Gly Val Leu Val Met Ala Ala Gln Ala Pro Ala Ile Ser Val Gly 85 90 95 Ala Ser Ile Val Trp Asp Arg Gln Ser Gly Phe Leu Arg Glu Met Leu 100 105 110 Val Ala Pro Val Arg Arg Ser Thr Leu Leu Ile Gly Lys Cys Leu Gly 115 120 125 Gly Ala Thr Val Ala Ala Cys Gln Gly Ala Val Val Leu Ala Ser Ala 130 135 140 Gly Leu Val Gly Val Pro Tyr Arg Val Asp Leu Phe Ala Ala Leu Leu 145 150 155 160 Ala Glu Leu Leu Leu Ala Ser Leu Ala Met Thr Val Leu Gly Ala Val 165 170 175 Ile Ala Val Arg Ile Gln Arg Ile Gln Thr Phe His Thr Ala Leu Thr 180 185 190 Val Leu Thr Ala Pro Met Val Phe Leu Ser Gly Leu Met Phe Pro Val 195 200 205 Ser Ala Met Pro Ala Trp Met Ala Ala Leu Thr Leu Val Asn Pro Leu 210 215 220 Thr Tyr Ala Val Asp Ala Met Arg Gln Thr Ile Thr Ala Phe His Pro 225 230 235 240 Ala Pro Ala Ala Gly Ala Ser Gly Ala Pro Ile Phe Asp Pro Val Ser 245 250 255 Trp Gly Gly Trp Asp Val Pro Pro Gly Leu Ser Val Val Leu Val Ala 260 265 270 Val Phe Ser Ala Leu Ala Leu Ala Ala Ala Ser Arg Arg Phe Ser Arg 275 280 285 Thr Asp 290 <210> SEQ ID NO 15 <211> LENGTH: 340 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 15 Met Arg Ser Thr Arg Arg Leu Ser Leu Arg Arg Arg Ser Ala Leu Leu 1 5 10 15 Met Gly Ala Ala Ser Leu Ala Ala Pro Ala Leu Leu Thr Val Gln Ala 20 25 30 Gly Glu Ala Gln Ala Phe Gly Thr Ile Asn Ser Leu Gly Gln Arg Ala 35 40 45 Glu His Glu Arg Ile Thr Arg Ala Ala Leu Ala Cys Ala Ala Gly Thr 50 55 60 Ser Ser Asp Gly Ser Cys Phe Glu Ala Arg Ser Ile Asp Gln Val Ala 65 70 75 80 Gly His Thr Gly Thr Phe Gly Ala Val Gly Ser Pro Asp Ser Asp Glu 85 90 95 Ile Phe Thr Pro Glu Ala His Cys Asp Asp Ala Asp Tyr Leu Thr Ala 100 105 110 Ser Gly Tyr Pro Arg Thr Arg Gln Gln Ala Ser Asp Gln Leu Val Ala 115 120 125 Cys Ile Ser Lys Leu Gln Gly Arg Phe Ser Gln Gly Val Ala Ala Gly 130 135 140 Ser Gly Thr Leu Asn Gly Asp Gly Thr Val Ser Pro Gly Asn Ser Asp 145 150 155 160 Leu Ser Gln Asp Cys Thr Phe Thr Gly Gly Val Pro Gly Arg Gly Lys 165 170 175 Cys Asn Ala Ile Glu Gly Phe Gly Arg Ala Leu His Gly Val Gln Asp 180 185 190 Phe Tyr Ser His Ser Asn Trp Ala Asp Lys Ala Asp Pro Asn Gln Ala 195 200 205 Val Gly Val Asn Asn Pro Pro Gly Leu Asn Met Ser Gly Pro Ala Pro 210 215 220 Leu Leu Ser Leu Lys Ser Gly Arg Pro Pro Ala Ala Ser Ser Val Pro 225 230 235 240 Ala Gln Leu Ser Thr Gly Cys Phe Ser Leu Asn Pro Trp Gly Cys Ser 245 250 255 Gly Arg Val Thr His Ser Thr Leu Asn Lys Asp Thr Gly Leu Ile Asp 260 265 270 Pro Ala Ser Gly Ala Thr Ser Asp Pro Thr Thr Asn Arg Gly Arg Ile 275 280 285 Thr Gly Asn Phe Asp Arg Ala Val Lys Gly Ala Ile Ala Asp Thr Arg 290 295 300 Arg Gln Trp Ala Asp Phe Arg Thr Ala Leu Thr Glu Arg Tyr Gly Gln 305 310 315 320 Glu Arg Gly Gln Arg Ile Ala Cys Val Leu Thr His Asp Asn Pro Val 325 330 335 Arg Asp Cys Arg 340 <210> SEQ ID NO 16 <211> LENGTH: 208 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 16 Met Gln Asp Glu Tyr Arg Thr Val Ala Leu Glu Gly Val His Glu Ile 1 5 10 15 Glu Ile Ser Arg Ser Arg Phe Ile Cys Ala Leu Ala Pro Ala Ala Thr 20 25 30 Glu Glu Glu Ala Gln Ala Phe Leu Ala Arg Ile Arg Lys Glu His Pro 35 40 45 Thr Ala Arg His His Cys Trp Ala Tyr Val Leu Gly Ala Asp Gly Ser 50 55 60 Val Gln Lys Ala Ser Asp Asp Gly Glu Pro Gly Gly Thr Ala Gly Val 65 70 75 80 Pro Met Leu Gln Met Leu Leu Arg Arg Asp Met Arg Tyr Val Val Ala 85 90 95 Val Val Thr Arg Tyr Phe Gly Gly Val Lys Leu Gly Ala Gly Gly Leu 100 105 110 Ile Arg Ala Tyr Gly Gly Val Val Gly Glu Ala Leu Asp Glu Leu Gly 115 120 125 Thr Val Thr His Lys Arg Phe Arg Leu Ala Thr Val Thr Val Asp His 130 135 140 Gln Arg Ala Gly Lys Leu Gln Asn Asp Leu Arg Ala Thr Gly Arg Glu 145 150 155 160 Val Arg Glu Val Ala Tyr Gly Glu Gly Val Arg Ile Gly Ile Gly Leu 165 170 175 Pro Glu Ala Asp Val Glu Gly Phe Arg Ala Trp Leu Ala Asp Thr Thr 180 185 190 Ala Gly Thr Ala Val Leu Glu Leu Gly Gly Glu Ala Tyr Gly Asp Ala 195 200 205 <210> SEQ ID NO 17 <211> LENGTH: 139 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 17 Met Phe Ala Glu Pro Gly Ile Ile Gln Lys Ile Ile Glu Gly Thr Gly 1 5 10 15 Asp Thr Trp Ala Leu Val Gly Leu Ser Ala Asn Glu Gln Arg Ala Ala 20 25 30 Tyr Gly Val Ala Glu Val Leu Gln Arg His Gly Lys Arg Ile Val Pro 35 40 45 Val His Pro Lys Ala Glu Thr Val His Gly Glu Leu Gly Tyr Ala Ser 50 55 60 Leu Ala Asp Ile Pro Phe Asp Val Asp Val Val Asp Val Phe Val Arg 65 70 75 80 Ser Glu Leu Ala Gly Ala Val Ala Asp Glu Ala Val Glu Ile Gly Ala 85 90 95 Lys Ala Val Trp Phe Gln Leu Gly Val Ile Asp Glu Glu Ala Tyr Asp 100 105 110 Arg Thr Arg Gly Ala Gly Leu Leu Met Val Met Asp Arg Cys Pro Ala 115 120 125 Ile Glu Leu Gly Arg Pro Arg Gly Arg Ala Val 130 135 <210> SEQ ID NO 18 <211> LENGTH: 106 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 18 Met Arg Lys Ser Leu Ala Val Ala Ala Ala Ser Ala Val Ala Gly Leu 1 5 10 15 Thr Leu Met Ala Gly Thr Pro Ala Asn Ala Ala Pro Ala Ala Ala Thr 20 25 30 Thr Val Pro Ser Cys Val Thr Ser Thr Phe Ser Thr Pro Phe Phe Ala 35 40 45 Met Val Arg Val Asp Met Glu Asn Lys Cys Thr Thr Glu Gln Arg Val 50 55 60 Lys Pro Ser Phe Asn Tyr Glu Leu Lys Asp Val Pro Cys Tyr Ala Leu 65 70 75 80 Gln Pro Gly Gln Lys Ala Val Phe Ser Arg Asp Val Ile Phe Ala Ser 85 90 95 Gly Tyr Thr Phe Ala Gly Leu Val Ser Cys 100 105 <210> SEQ ID NO 19 <211> LENGTH: 216 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 19 Met Ile Arg Thr Leu Ile Val Asp Asp Asp Ser Leu Val Arg Leu Ala 1 5 10 15 Leu Ala Asp Ile Leu Asp Asp Val Pro Gly Ile Glu Val Val Ala Gln 20 25 30 Ala Gly Asp Gly Leu Glu Ala Val Gln Arg Ala Gly Ala Leu Arg Val 35 40 45 Asp Val Ala Leu Met Asp Val Arg Met Pro Arg Met Asp Gly Ile Ala 50 55 60 Ala Thr Glu Arg Leu Arg Ala Leu Pro Ser Pro Pro Glu Val Val Met 65 70 75 80 Leu Thr Thr Phe Asp Leu Asp Gln Tyr Val Tyr Asp Ala Leu Ala Ala 85 90 95 Gly Ala Ser Gly Phe Leu Leu Lys Asp Thr Asp Pro Ala Glu Ile Ile 100 105 110 Arg Ala Ile Gln Val Val Ala Ala Gly Gln Ala Met Leu His Pro Ala 115 120 125 Ala Ala Arg Arg Leu Val Asp Arg Tyr His Arg Thr Ala Ser Arg Asp 130 135 140 Val Gln Ala Ala Gln Gln Arg Leu Ala Arg Leu Thr Pro Arg Glu Ser 145 150 155 160 Asp Val Leu Gly Leu Leu Ala Ala Gly Ala Ser Asn Ala Glu Ile Ala 165 170 175 Asp Gly Leu Gly Met Arg Glu Ser Thr Val Lys Ala His Val Ser Arg 180 185 190 Ile Leu Ala Ala Leu Glu Val Gly Asn Arg Val Gln Ala Ala Leu Cys 195 200 205 Ala Arg Asp Ala Gly Leu Thr Val 210 215 <210> SEQ ID NO 20 <211> LENGTH: 354 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 20 Met Gly Ala Gly Ala Thr Leu Trp Gly Pro Asp Thr Ala Val Ala Ala 1 5 10 15 Val Gly Ser Leu Ser Leu Ala Val Arg Tyr Arg Val Pro Leu Val Thr 20 25 30 Val Val Val Thr Val Cys Ala Ala Val Val Val Gly Ala Leu Leu Pro 35 40 45 Leu Leu Val Met Leu Phe Tyr Leu Ala Ser Arg Gly Trp Arg Ala Leu 50 55 60 Gly Cys Ala Cys Ala Ala Val Ala Leu Ala Gly Asn Trp Phe Ala Gln 65 70 75 80 Pro Glu Gln Leu Leu Trp Ser Thr Arg Ala Tyr Gly Pro Val Leu Pro 85 90 95 Phe Ala Leu Val Met Val Leu Gly Leu Trp Ala Asp Ser Arg Arg Arg 100 105 110 Leu Glu Ala Ser Leu Thr Ala Gln Val Glu His Leu Arg Val Glu Arg 115 120 125 Glu Leu Arg Ala Lys Gln Ala Arg Leu Ser Glu Arg Ala Arg Ile Ala 130 135 140 Ala Glu Met His Asp Val Leu Ala His Arg Leu Ser Leu Leu Ala Leu 145 150 155 160 His Ala Gly Ala Leu Gln Arg Arg Ala Ala Thr Leu Pro Glu Pro Val 165 170 175 Ala Asp Arg Leu Ala Leu Leu Arg Thr Thr Ser Thr Glu Ala Leu Gly 180 185 190 Asp Leu Arg Asp Val Leu Gly Val Leu Arg Asp Pro Asp His Pro Glu 195 200 205 Leu Gln Gly Gln Arg Val Pro Gly Leu Arg Glu Leu Pro Ala Leu Phe 210 215 220 Asp Glu Ala Arg Ala Ala Gly Gln Glu Ile Asp Ala Val Val Glu Gly 225 230 235 240 Ala Ala Gly Pro Leu Pro Ala Ser His Arg Leu Ala Val His Arg Leu 245 250 255 Val Gln Glu Ala Leu Thr Asn Ala Arg Lys His Ala Pro Gly Ala Pro 260 265 270 Val Arg Val Val Val Arg Tyr Gly Pro Pro Ala Ser Ser Val Glu Val 275 280 285 His Asn Arg Ala Gly Asp Pro Ala Ser Ala Ala Gly Glu Pro Pro Val 290 295 300 Ser Ser Gly Tyr Gly Leu Val Gly Leu Ala Glu Arg Val Thr Ala Leu 305 310 315 320 Gly Gly Arg Leu Asp Tyr Gly Pro Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Trp Asn Ile 325 330 335 Ala Ala Asp Ile Pro Val Ser Thr Val Glu Glu His Leu Ala Pro Gly 340 345 350 Ala Ala <210> SEQ ID NO 21 <211> LENGTH: 165 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 21 Met Thr Arg Val Leu Ala Gly Ala Val Gly Pro Ala Asp Arg Leu Asp 1 5 10 15 Val Val Glu Ile Asn Pro Arg Phe Val Glu Ile Leu Asn Gly Ala Leu 20 25 30 Arg Thr Asp Pro Ala Met Ser Ala Ala Ser Asp Arg Ile Arg Ile Ile 35 40 45 Pro Glu Ser Ile Thr Glu Met Pro Ile Asp His Ser Tyr Asp Val Val 50 55 60 Val Ser Cys Leu Pro Phe Thr Asn Phe Ala Pro Glu Thr Val Arg Ser 65 70 75 80 Ile Leu Asp Arg Tyr Leu Ser Val Leu Val Pro Gly Gly His Leu Thr 85 90 95 Phe Phe Gly Tyr Leu Gly Thr His Ala Thr Arg Ser Leu Leu Ser Ser 100 105 110 Arg Lys Glu Ala Ala Arg His Arg Glu Val Thr Asp Leu Leu His Asp 115 120 125 Phe Thr Arg Arg Tyr Ala Ser Arg Gln Ser Val Val Trp Arg Asn Ile 130 135 140 Pro Pro Ala Arg Val Trp His Val Arg Ala Pro Glu His Ala Thr Arg 145 150 155 160 Ala Ala Asp Ala Ala 165 <210> SEQ ID NO 22 <211> LENGTH: 396 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 22 Met Pro Thr Ala Asp Glu Leu Leu His Gly Val Pro Pro Ala Ala Ala 1 5 10 15 Tyr Gly Leu Val Leu Gly Leu Val Leu Leu Glu Ser Val Leu Leu Leu 20 25 30 Gly Ser Phe Val Pro Thr Leu Ser Leu Met Leu Cys Ala Gly Val Leu 35 40 45 Ala Gln Glu Gly Thr Leu Arg Leu Pro Leu Val Val Leu Cys Ala Thr 50 55 60 Thr Gly Val Val Ala Gly Asp Leu Leu Ala Gln Arg Thr Gly Arg Arg 65 70 75 80 Leu Gly Pro Gly Leu Arg Arg Ser Arg Leu Gly Arg Arg Leu Pro Glu 85 90 95 Ala Ala Trp Glu Arg Ala Trp Ser Val Leu Gln Arg Arg Gly Gly Pro 100 105 110 Ala Leu Leu Val Cys Arg Phe Val Pro Val Val Arg Thr Phe Ala Pro 115 120 125 His Leu Ala Gly Ala Ala Gly Met Pro Tyr Arg Arg Leu Ala Pro Tyr 130 135 140 Ser Leu Val Ala Gly Leu Val Trp Ala Gly Gly Glu Ala Gly Ala Gly 145 150 155 160 Tyr Val Leu Gly Ala Ser Tyr Asp Arg Leu Thr Ala Pro Gly Gly Gly 165 170 175 Leu Pro Thr Val Cys Ala Ala Ala Gly Val Leu Leu Ala Ala Ala Ala 180 185 190 Gly Leu Leu Val His Arg Arg Arg Ala Arg Arg Ala Val Gly Gly Ser 195 200 205 Gly Arg Ala Gly Gln Arg Gln Ala Asp Val Gly Ala Gln Asp Arg Asp 210 215 220 Val Gln Met Thr Gln Leu Ala Pro Gly Val His Pro Glu Leu Val Ala 225 230 235 240 Glu Asp Ala Ala Asp Leu Arg Val Arg Gly Gln Gly Leu Ala Pro Ala 245 250 255 Ala Ala Ala Val Glu Gly Glu His Gln Pro Leu Pro Gln Ala Leu Ala 260 265 270 Gln Arg Val Leu Arg Gly Gln Arg Pro Gln Val Ala Asp Asp Leu Val 275 280 285 Val Ala Ala Glu Gly Glu Ala Gly Val Val Val Ala Leu Asp Gly Pro 290 295 300 Asp Pro Leu Leu His Gln Pro Arg His His Val Pro Val Glu Arg Val 305 310 315 320 Arg Ala His Ala Ala Glu Arg Leu Ala Val Pro Glu Gly Gln Cys Leu 325 330 335 Gly Glu Gly Gly Val Leu Gln Cys Ala Val Ala Glu Leu Gly Gly Glu 340 345 350 Pro Gly Ala Gly Gly Gly Phe Thr Glu Lys Ser Glu Ile Gln Thr Ala 355 360 365 Gly Gly Asp Leu Asp Gln Val Thr Ala Gly Arg Gly Val Gln Gln Ser 370 375 380 Gly Glu Pro Arg Ala Gly Cys Val Gln Ala Leu Ser 385 390 395 <210> SEQ ID NO 23 <211> LENGTH: 261 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 23 Met Asn Arg Ala Ile Ser Phe Arg Val Leu Gly Pro Leu Ser Val Thr 1 5 10 15 Val Gly Arg Lys Asn Val Ser Leu Pro Ser Gly Arg Gln Arg Ser Leu 20 25 30 Leu Ala Ala Leu Leu Val His Pro Gly Glu Ile Val Pro Val Glu Lys 35 40 45 Leu Val Asp Leu Val Trp Gly Asp Glu Leu Pro His Ser Pro Arg Pro 50 55 60 Ala Leu His Thr Leu Leu Thr Arg Leu Arg Gln Ser Leu Asp Ala Ala 65 70 75 80 Gly Ala Gly Leu Ser Gly Leu Leu His Thr Ser Pro Ser Gly Tyr Leu 85 90 95 Ile Glu Val Pro Thr Gly Cys Leu Asp Leu Thr Leu Phe Arg Glu Ser 100 105 110 Ala Ala Arg Ala Arg Leu Ala Ala Glu Leu Gly Asp Arg Ala Leu Glu 115 120 125 His Ser Ala Leu Thr Glu Ala Leu Ala Leu Trp His Gly Gln Pro Leu 130 135 140 Gly Gly Val Arg Ser Asp Ala Leu His Arg Asp Val Val Pro Gly Leu 145 150 155 160 Met Glu Glu Trp Ile Arg Ala Ile Glu Arg Tyr His Asp Ala Cys Leu 165 170 175 Ala Leu Gly Arg His Asp Glu Ile Val Gly Asp Leu Arg Thr Leu Thr 180 185 190 Ala Lys Tyr Pro Leu Arg Glu Ser Leu Trp Gln Arg Leu Met Leu Ala 195 200 205 Leu Tyr Arg Cys Gly Arg Arg Gly Glu Ala Leu Ala Ala Tyr Ala Glu 210 215 220 Val Ser Gly Val Phe Arg Asp Glu Leu Gly Val Asp Pro Gly Arg Glu 225 230 235 240 Leu Arg His Leu His Val Ala Ile Leu Arg Thr Asp Val Ser Leu Ser 245 250 255 Leu Ala Arg Ser Ala 260 <210> SEQ ID NO 24 <211> LENGTH: 163 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 24 Met Ser Asp Ser Arg Pro Ala Pro Asp Arg Asn Asp Arg Pro Leu Leu 1 5 10 15 Arg Gln Phe Asp Gln Arg Leu Ser Glu Leu Ile Ala Thr Thr Ala Gly 20 25 30 Ala Glu Gly Asn Lys Arg Pro Gly Tyr Ala Arg Leu Ala Lys Glu Ile 35 40 45 Arg Asp Thr Thr Gly Arg Thr Ile Ser Gly Thr Tyr Leu Trp Glu Leu 50 55 60 Ala Thr Gly Lys Lys Arg Asn Val Thr Leu Glu Gln Leu Asp Val Leu 65 70 75 80 Ala Glu Phe Phe Gly Val Pro Pro Glu Tyr Phe Leu Asp Asp Glu Thr 85 90 95 Gly Arg Arg Ile Asp Asp Arg Arg Arg Leu Ala Ile Ala Leu Arg Asp 100 105 110 Ala Lys Val Arg Asn Leu Ala Leu Arg Ala Asp Gly Leu Ser Pro Asp 115 120 125 Cys Leu Asp Ala Leu Ile Ala Met Val Asn Glu Ala Arg Lys Thr Gln 130 135 140 Asn Leu Ser Ser Ile Asp Asp Asp Asp Asp Thr Ala Thr Thr Leu Thr 145 150 155 160 Ser Ser Gly <210> SEQ ID NO 25 <211> LENGTH: 194 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 25 Met Pro Arg Arg Thr Tyr Val Ala Tyr Arg Arg Cys Leu Arg Lys Gly 1 5 10 15 Gln Arg Glu Pro Glu Met Pro Tyr Thr Ser Asp Ala Ala Leu Arg Arg 20 25 30 Arg Cys Arg Ala Leu Leu Ala Arg Val Ser Leu Pro Glu Pro Phe Ser 35 40 45 Val Glu Val Leu Cys Arg His Leu Gly Glu Gln Arg Gly Arg Pro Ile 50 55 60 His Leu His Pro Leu Pro Glu Gln Ala Ala Leu Ala Gly Ala Cys Gly 65 70 75 80 Leu Trp Leu Ala Thr Ala Thr Asp Asp His Ile Phe His Glu Arg His 85 90 95 Thr Val Arg Pro His Gln Glu His Ile Val Leu His Glu Ile Gly His 100 105 110 Met Leu Phe Asp His His Ser Leu Ala Pro Ala Gly Gly Pro Ala Gly 115 120 125 Ala Leu Leu Ala Asp Leu Asp Pro Arg Leu Ile Arg Arg Leu Leu Ala 130 135 140 Arg Thr Asn Tyr Ser Thr Arg Gln Glu Arg Glu Ala Glu Met Leu Ala 145 150 155 160 Ser Leu Ile Arg Thr Ser Val Arg Ala Gly Thr Gly Glu Arg Pro Pro 165 170 175 Gly Ala Leu Gly Arg Leu Gln Ala Ala Leu Gly Val Val Gly Ser His 180 185 190 Gly Arg <210> SEQ ID NO 26 <211> LENGTH: 177 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 26 Met Val Leu Arg Cys Pro Tyr Ala Val Arg His Pro Ala Gln Arg Gly 1 5 10 15 Leu Trp Leu Ala Val Ala Thr Ala Ala Leu Ala Met Thr Leu Thr Thr 20 25 30 Ser Ile Gly Ser Val Val Pro Glu Ala Ala Leu Gly Leu Ala Gly Asn 35 40 45 Leu Thr Gly Met Val Ser Ala Gly Ala Val Leu Gly Phe Val Ile Thr 50 55 60 Ile Met Gly Gly Arg Arg Leu His Thr Trp Ala Cys Gly Thr Val Ala 65 70 75 80 Ala Thr Ala Leu Ala Leu Thr Val Leu Gly Val Thr Ser Arg Ala His 85 90 95 Leu Ser Tyr Gly Thr Ile Ala Glu Ile Pro Pro Thr Ala Thr Ala Tyr 100 105 110 Arg Leu Leu Leu Ile Gly Thr His Leu Ala Val Asn Ala Ala Cys Ile 115 120 125 Ala Val Cys Trp Arg Tyr Gly Arg Gly Pro Ser Arg Ser Pro Leu Ala 130 135 140 Leu Gly Leu Arg Leu Phe Gly Ile Gly Thr Val Leu Ala Glu Leu Tyr 145 150 155 160 Trp Leu Arg Leu Phe Ala Gly Leu Phe Thr Thr Ser Asp Ala Leu Leu 165 170 175 Arg <210> SEQ ID NO 27 <211> LENGTH: 4975 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: pCK51 <220> FEATURE: <221> NAME/KEY: misc_feature <222> LOCATION: (1) .. (4975) <223> OTHER INFORMATION: n may represent a, c, g or t <400> SEQUENCE: 27 cccgggccgt tcgcccacca cgagccccac gcccagcggc accgccacgc ccccgagggc 60 acccagcggc nagacgacgc ccatggggcc cagggccagg gccttgtaga aggcgagcat 120 cgccgcgggg cccacgacgc cngcggccac cgcgtaccag agcccggggc cggcctcgga 180 ccagccgccg gtgccgatca cgatcgtgcc canggcgagg acggccagca gctgggacac 240 caggaccacg gtcagggcgg gcatgcgccg ggtgagcagc ccgncgccga agtcggccag 300 cccccacatg aggctggtgg ccagggcgaa gaccggtgtc atgggggaga cctcncagta 360 cagtgtgatg aacggtggcg tccacgacac cgtagtacat gatgctcgac ttgcaagaat 420 aatatnttgg acgggacgga tcggaccgac gtgacggacc tcgaccagct cacgcaatcg 480 ctcgcccgca acctcangcg ctggcgcggt gagcgccact tcaccctcga cgccctcgcg 540 gcccgctccg gcgtcagccg cggcatgntc atccagatcg agcaggcccg gacgaacccc 600 agcgtcggca ccacggtgaa gctcgccgac gccctcggng tcagcatcac caccctgctc 660 gactacgagc agggcgcccg cgtgcggctc gtacccgagg agcaggtggn ccgcatgtgg 720 tccaccgagg cgggcagcca cacctcgctg ctcgtcggcg ccgatgtccg cggcccgctg 780 naactgtggg actggcgcct cgtgcccggc gacagcagcg tctcggaccc ccacccgccc 840 ggcaccgtcg anatgctgac cgtacggtcg ggccgcctca cgctcgtcgt cgacggcgag 900 gagtacgagg tcgccgccgg canctcggcc accttcgagg ccgacgccgc acacacctac 960 cgcaacgacg gcaccgagcc cgtcgagatg acgntggtgg tggccgtccc gcccgcgggc 1020 tgacagccgc cggcccctga acgcaccggg cccgccggga gacgncgagc gacgctctcc 1080 cggcgggcct ccgtgcgtgg ttgccccgtg cgccggtgaa gacggtgctt ccgaanccgg 1140 gcttcccaag tcggtgctcc tgaaagcgga gtgaaaccgt agtgaaagcg gacgctccta 1200 atgtctntct caccgggaac cgactggatg gggaaacggg ccatgaaaag tgccaaggaa 1260 ccgacgatct accaggangt ggagatcatc cgccgcatcc aggagctcat ggttctctgc 1320 tccttgctgc cgcccgacgg caagctgcnt gaagcgctgg agttcgctct ctcgctccac 1380 gaggagccgg tactggcccg gatcactccc ctcaccaatn tccatccctt cgcgacgaaa 1440 gcctggctgg agtccctgtg gctcggcgaa ggcgtttcca gcgaggagaa ngagctggtc 1500 gcctggcaga acaacagcga caacatggga ccggccattc gtgaactcaa gaatgccgaa 1560 cngcagtccg gcatcaggct ggtcgctcag ctgacgtcct gacacccgcc tgggtgccgg 1620 gattcacctc aanatcggag gtaagccatg accgcttcca ttcttcagca gtccgtcgtg 1680 gacgccgact tccgcgcggc gctncttgag aaccccgccg ccttcggcgc ttccgccgcg 1740 gccctgccca cgcccgtcga ggcccaggac caggngtccc ttgacttctg gaccaaggac 1800 atcgccgcca cggaagcctt cgcctgccgc cagagctgca gcttcngccc gttcaccttc 1860 gtgtgcgacg gcaacaccaa gtaagtggct gctgcctcta ggcggtaatg ctcgccnggt 1920 gcgatgacgc ggtgggccgg tgacctgccg gcccaccgcg ttgcgccgcg cggcggcgcc 1980 cctgccanga gggtcacgag gctccttcga cttcgaccgc aggagaaatt cgcatatggg 2040 tatgggtaat gcgtatccnc tggacatcgc agcacgggcg gccaatctga ccgaacggtt 2100 acgggtcgtg gccgccgcgg gcggcgaggn ggccgtgcgg gacaccacgg tcgaactcga 2160 cgccttcgac cgctggaaga ccgacacgct ggccggaaaa ntggccgaca aattccacca 2220 ggaatcgctg caccgcggcc ggccgcccca gcacaccaag gacgaactcg cnggcgtgct 2280 ctccgcctac cgccgtctgg aactcgccct ggacaccgcg gacgacgacg tccgggcact 2340 tcncggcgag ctgcagagcg cctggctgcc cacctaccgc gcggccctcg acgcccacga 2400 cgccgcccgc gacngcgaac gcaccgacgc gcaggcgggc gaggagcccg gctggcgcgc 2460 gttcgacgtg tactacggcc ggctngccaa ggcgtgcgag ccgttcctgc gcgaactggg 2520 ccgcggcctg gaggccgcac gcggcgccgc acaggncgag aacaccgcgc tctccccgca 2580 actggccgag gacatccagc gccacctgct cgaccgcttc gagctgngcg tggcctgggc 2640 cgtggaggcc gacgccaacg tgcactgcac ccaggccggg atcgacaagg ccgaggcnac 2700 gcgcgaggac tacctcgcct acctcgacac cacgttctcc gacagcgccg cctaccaccg 2760 cttctaccng aagttcccgg tgctcggccg ctggctcgcc cacaccaccg ccctgctcac 2820 cgcgttcggc cgcgacctcn tcgacagcct ggccgccgac gcgcaggcca tcggcaccga 2880 gttcttcggg cagccgatca ccgcgttcac ntccctgcgg ctgggcgact ccgaccccca 2940 cgcgggcgcg cgcaccgtcg cccgcgtctc cgtcgtgctc gncgacgggc gcaccggcga 3000 gttcttctac aagccgcgca gcgtccggtc cgaggcggcg ctccaggacg tcntcgccag 3060 gctggcggac gacggggtcg tcgacttcgc gacccggccc gtcctgcccc gggacggcta 3120 cggntacgag gcgctgatcc ccgccggacg caaccgcgtc gagaccccgg aggaggtcac 3180 ccggatctac cgcgnactgg gcggctacct ggcgctgttc tacgtcctgg gcggcagcga 3240 cctccacttc gagaacgtca tcgtcnccga cggacacgcc ttcgtctgcg acgccgagac 3300 cgtcctcggc gtccaccccc agggacgggc acagtcngag ggcaccctcc tcgactccgt 3360 cttcaagacc ggactcctcg aatggccgcg cgccgcgagc ccgggcgngg aggccgccgc 3420 cgagatgcgc atcagcggct acgcgggcgg cgagggatac gacgtccccg tcccggagnc 3480 ccgccgcacn ggcgaggggn tcagcttcgc ggcctccgtc gtgcacaaga ccggcgtcca 3540 cgtcgagacn agcgcctcca accgcgtcta cctcggcgag gagctcgtgc gtcccgagga 3600 ccacgtcgag tcgatcatgg ngggcttcaa ccgcgtctac gactggttcg ccgaggaccc 3660 cgacgcgtcc gtcgactacc tgatggagac gntcagctgg gtcaccgccc gcttcatcaa 3720 ctggggcacc cagatctacg cccagctgct gagcgccgcc cgncacccgc gctgcctcac 3780 cgaacccctc gaagtggacc tgctcgccaa caccgtccgc accttccccc gcanctggga 3840 cgccgaaggc gtcctggccg gacgggaagt ggccgccatg tggcagatgg acgtgccgct 3900 gttcnccgcg gccgcccacg cccggcagct cgtccacggg cacagcgacc cgctgcccgc 3960 ccggctggac agctcnccga tcgaccacgc ggccgcacgc atccggcggc tgtcggagcg 4020 caaccgcgaa cagcagagcc agtacancgc cgccagcctc tcgaccggcg agatcagcag 4080 ccccgccttc gtcgccacct ccctggacta cgcggccngg atcggcaacc gtctgtgcga 4140 cgagctgcgg gcccccgccg cctccgcccc ctggacctcc taccagctnt ccggcgaatc 4200 cctcgccgag gtggacatcg aggccgacct ctaccagggc tccgccggcg tcgtcctctn 4260 cctcgcctac ctcgaccagc tcgtgccccg ccccgagtac cgcaagaccg cccggcaggc 4320 cctcgaccat ntcctcgtgc actgggaccg cgaccggctc ggcgccttcg ccggactcgg 4380 cggcgtcgtc tacctcctca cncacctgca ccgcctctgg ggcgacgagg agctcctcga 4440 cctggcggtg cggctcagcg acgagctgcc cgnacgcatc gacgaggacc ggcacttcga 4500 catcctgcac ggcgcggccg gcctcatccc cgtcctcctc ggcntcgccc gggagaccgg 4560 cggccacggc atcgagcacg cccaccgctg cgccgaacac ctgctgcgcc acgcngagga 4620 cgacggcacc accctcagct ggcccccctc cgcggccgac gagacgtacg gcaacctcac 4680 cggctnctcg cacggctccg gcggcatcgg ctgggcgctc atccagctcg gccggcacac 4740 cggcaggacg gactacntcg aggccgggcg caaggcgttc gcctacgagg accggcacgt 4800 cgacgagcag gagaaggact ggtacganct gcggatcaac aacggatcct ctagagtcga 4860 cctgcaggca tgcaagcttg gcgtaatcat ggtcatagnt gtttcctgtg tgaaattgtt 4920 atccgctcac aattccacac aacatacgag ccggaagcat aaagtgtnan gcctg 4975 <210> SEQ ID NO 28 <211> LENGTH: 1337 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Tetracycline resistance cassette of pDWFT33 <400> SEQUENCE: 28 aggcctcgcc ggcttccatt caggtcgagg tggcccggct ccatgcaccg cgacgcaacg 60 cggggaggca gacaaggtat agggcggcgc ctacaatcca tgccaacccg ttccatgtgc 120 tcgccgaggc ggcataaatc gccgtgacga tcagcggtcc agtgatcgaa gttaggctgg 180 taagagccgc gagcgatcct tgaagctgtc cctgatggtc gtcatctacc tgcctggaca 240 gcatggcctg caacgcgggc atcccgatgc cgccggaagc gagaagaatc ataatgggga 300 aggccatcca gcctcgcgtc gcgaacgcca gcaagacgta gcccagcgcg tcggccgcca 360 tgccggcgat aatggcctgc ttctcgccga aacgtttggt ggcgggacca gtgacgaagg 420 cttgagcgag ggcgtgcaag attccgaata ccgcaagcga caggccgatc atcgtcgcgc 480 tccagcgaaa gcggtcctcg ccgaaaatga cccagagcgc tgccggcacc tgtcctacga 540 gttgcatgat aaagaagaca gtcataagtg cggcgacgat agtcatgccc cgcgcccacc 600 ggaaggagct gactgggttg aaggctctca agggcatcgg tcgacgctct cccttatgcg 660 actcctgcat taggaagcag cccagtagta ggttgaggcc gttgagcacc gccgccgcaa 720 ggaatggtgc atgcaaggag atggcgccca acagtccccc ggccacgggg cctgccacca 780 tacccacgcc gaaacaagcg ctcatgagcc cgaagtggcg agcccgatct tccccatcgg 840 tgatgtcggc gatataggcg ccagcaaccg cacctgtggc gccggtgatg ccggccacga 900 tgcgtccggc gtagaggatc cacaggacgg gtgtggtcgc catgatcgcg tagtcgatag 960 tggctccaag tagcgaagcg agcaggactg ggcggcggcc aaagcggtcg gacagtgctc 1020 cgagaacggg tgcgcataga aattgcatca acgcatatag cgctagcagc acgccatagt 1080 gactggcgat gctgtcggaa tggacgatat cccgcaagag gcccggcagt accggcataa 1140 ccaagcctat gcctacagca tccagggtga cggtgccgag gatgacgatg agcgcattgt 1200 tagatttcat acacggtgcc tgactgcgtt agcaatttaa ctgtgataaa ctaccgcatt 1260 aaagcttatc gatgataagc tgtcaaacat gagaattctt gaagacgaaa gggcctcgtg 1320 atacgcctat tactagt 1337 <210> SEQ ID NO 29 <211> LENGTH: 11 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: 11 base repeat unit of SARP binding site <220> FEATURE: <221> NAME/KEY: misc_feature <222> LOCATION: (6)..(11) <223> OTHER INFORMATION: n = a or c or g or t. <400> SEQUENCE: 29 tgaaannnnn n 11 <210> SEQ ID NO 30 <211> LENGTH: 19 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Streptomyces cinnamoneus <400> SEQUENCE: 30 Cys Arg Gln Ser Cys Ser Phe Gly Pro Phe Thr Phe Val Cys Asp Gly 1 5 10 15 Asn Thr Lys <210> SEQ ID NO 31 <211> LENGTH: 19 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Unknown Organism <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Unknown Organism: Sequence source uncertain, duramycin A peptide <400> SEQUENCE: 31 Cys Lys Gln Ser Cys Ser Phe Gly Pro Phe Thr Phe Val Cys Asp Gly 1 5 10 15 Asn Thr Lys <210> SEQ ID NO 32 <211> LENGTH: 19 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Unknown Organism <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Unknown Organism: Sequence source uncertain, duramycin B peptide <400> SEQUENCE: 32 Cys Arg Gln Ser Cys Ser Phe Gly Pro Leu Thr Phe Val Cys Asp Gly 1 5 10 15 Asn Thr Lys <210> SEQ ID NO 33 <211> LENGTH: 19 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Unknown Organism <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Unknown Organism: Sequence source uncertain, duramycin C peptide <400> SEQUENCE: 33 Cys Ala Asn Ser Cys Ser Tyr Gly Pro Leu Thr Trp Ser Cys Asp Gly 1 5 10 15 Asn Thr Lys <210> SEQ ID NO 34 <211> LENGTH: 19 <212> TYPE: PRT <213> ORGANISM: Unknown Organism <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Unknown Organism: Sequence source uncertain, ancovenin peptide <400> SEQUENCE: 34 Cys Val Gln Ser Cys Ser Phe Gly Pro Leu Thr Trp Ser Cys Asp Gly 1 5 10 15 Asn Thr Lys <210> SEQ ID NO 35 <211> LENGTH: 22 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer B B3 for producing probe BB <400> SEQUENCE: 35 gcctacgagg accggtacgt cg 22 <210> SEQ ID NO 36 <211> LENGTH: 22 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer BB4 for producing probe BB <400> SEQUENCE: 36 ggcgaagcgc aggaagagct cg 22 <210> SEQ ID NO 37 <211> LENGTH: 22 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer for cloning restriction sites into pDWFT4 <400> SEQUENCE: 37 cttcgtgtgc gacggcaaca cc 22 <210> SEQ ID NO 38 <211> LENGTH: 30 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer for cloning SpeI site into pDWFT4 <400> SEQUENCE: 38 gcagcaacta gttacttggt gttgccgtcg 30 <210> SEQ ID NO 39 <211> LENGTH: 32 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer for cloning StuI site into pDWFT4 <400> SEQUENCE: 39 ccacggaggc cttcgcctgc cgccagagct gc 32 <210> SEQ ID NO 40 <211> LENGTH: 32 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer for cloning StuI site inot pDWFT4 <400> SEQUENCE: 40 ggcgaaggcc tccgtggcgg cgatgtcctt gg 32 <210> SEQ ID NO 41 <211> LENGTH: 21 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer for cloning XhoI site into pDWTF4 <400> SEQUENCE: 41 ttcagcagtc cgtcgtggac g 21 <210> SEQ ID NO 42 <211> LENGTH: 22 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer for cloning NdeI site into pDWTF4 <400> SEQUENCE: 42 gcggatacgc gttacccata cc 22 <210> SEQ ID NO 43 <211> LENGTH: 30 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer for cloning tetracycline resistance gene <400> SEQUENCE: 43 gcggcgaggc ctcgccggct tccattcagg 30 <210> SEQ ID NO 44 <211> LENGTH: 30 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer for cloning tetracycline resistance gene <400> SEQUENCE: 44 gcggcgacta gtaataggcg tatcacgagg 30 <210> SEQ ID NO 45 <211> LENGTH: 88 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Oligonucleotide for cloning duramycin A gene <400> SEQUENCE: 45 gcggcgaggc cttcgcctgc aagcagagct gcagcttcgg cccgttcacc ttcgtgtgcg 60 acggcaacac caagtaacta gtccggcc 88 <210> SEQ ID NO 46 <211> LENGTH: 88 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Oligonucleotide for cloning duramycin B gene <400> SEQUENCE: 46 gcggcgaggc cttcgcctgc cgccagagct gcagcttcgg cccgctcacc ttcgtgtgcg 60 acggcaacac caagtaacta gtccggcc 88 <210> SEQ ID NO 47 <211> LENGTH: 20 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Oligonucleotide for cloning duramycin A and B genes <400> SEQUENCE: 47 ggccggacta gttacttggt 20 <210> SEQ ID NO 48 <211> LENGTH: 34 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer BAM for generating pDWFT4 varian <400> SEQUENCE: 48 ggcgccggat cctaccgcaa cgacggcacc gagc 34 <210> SEQ ID NO 49 <211> LENGTH: 34 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer KPN for generating pDWFT5 variant <400> SEQUENCE: 49 ggcgccggta ccgaggacgt cgagctgttc gagc 34 <210> SEQ ID NO 50 <211> LENGTH: 22 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer FTP1 for generating pDWFT5 variant <400> SEQUENCE: 50 caggtcgccg acgatctcgt cg 22 <210> SEQ ID NO 51 <211> LENGTH: 63 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer 7A for deleting cinorf7 <400> SEQUENCE: 51 tcgttctcac cgggaaccga ctggatgggg aaacgggcca ggcctcgccg gcttccattc 60 agg 63 <210> SEQ ID NO 52 <211> LENGTH: 63 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer 7B for deleting cinorf7 <400> SEQUENCE: 52 acctccgatg ttgaggtgaa tcccggcacc cggcgggtga ggcctaatag gcgtatcacg 60 agg 63 <210> SEQ ID NO 53 <211> LENGTH: 22 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer FTP35 for deleting cinA <400> SEQUENCE: 53 ggcgacagca gcgtctcgga cc 22 <210> SEQ ID NO 54 <211> LENGTH: 33 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer LA for deleting cinA <400> SEQUENCE: 54 ggcagcagcc acggcttacc tccgatgttg agg 33 <210> SEQ ID NO 55 <211> LENGTH: 30 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer RA for deleting cinA <400> SEQUENCE: 55 cggaggtaag ccgtggctgc tgcctctagg 30 <210> SEQ ID NO 56 <211> LENGTH: 22 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer FTP28 for deleting cinA <400> SEQUENCE: 56 ttcaggtaga agcggtggta gg 22 <210> SEQ ID NO 57 <211> LENGTH: 34 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer LM for deleting cinM <400> SEQUENCE: 57 tggagccact ccatgcgaat ttctcctgcg gtcg 34 <210> SEQ ID NO 58 <211> LENGTH: 30 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer RM for deleting cinM <400> SEQUENCE: 58 agaaattcgc atggagtggc tccaccatgg 30 <210> SEQ ID NO 59 <211> LENGTH: 21 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer FTPMR for deleting cinM <400> SEQUENCE: 59 cggccgagct cgacgatctc c 21 <210> SEQ ID NO 60 <211> LENGTH: 63 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer XA for deleting cinX <400> SEQUENCE: 60 cccgccgtcg caccacgaac agtaaggagt ggctccacca ggcctcgccg gcttccattc 60 agg 63 <210> SEQ ID NO 61 <211> LENGTH: 63 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer XB for deleting cinX <400> SEQUENCE: 61 tccttggtgc cgcgcggtgc gcggacgacg ggtgccggga ggcctaatag gcgtatcacg 60 agg 63 <210> SEQ ID NO 62 <211> LENGTH: 63 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer RA for deleting cinR <400> SEQUENCE: 62 tcagcactgt cgaagaacac ctcgcgccgg gagcggcata ggcctcgccg gcttccattc 60 agg 63 <210> SEQ ID NO 63 <211> LENGTH: 63 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer RB for deleting cinR <400> SEQUENCE: 63 ctgctgacac ccggcccgta gcggtcacgg ctcacaccga ggcctaatag gcgtatcacg 60 agg 63 <210> SEQ ID NO 64 <211> LENGTH: 63 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer SARPA for deleting cinR1 <400> SEQUENCE: 64 gtcttcaggg tgcggctcga tgagcgaagg ggagagttca ggcctcgccg gcttccattc 60 agg 63 <210> SEQ ID NO 65 <211> LENGTH: 63 <212> TYPE: DNA <213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence <220> FEATURE: <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: Primer SARPB for deleting cinR1 <400> SEQUENCE: 65 ctcgtgcacc gccggcgcgc gcgccgggcg gtgggcggca ggcctaatag gcgtatcacg 60 agg 63 

1. An expression cassette-comprising a cinA orf, a cinM orf and optionally a cinX orf.
 2. A set of nucleic acids together comprising a cinA orf, a cinM orf and optionally a cinX orf.
 3. An expression cassette comprising a cinA open reading frame (orf), a cinM orf, a cinT orf, a cinH orf and a cinY orf and optionally a cinX orf.
 4. A set of nucleic acids together comprising a cinA orf, a cinM orf, a cinT orf, a cinH orf and a cinY orf and optionally a cinX orf.
 5. A set of nucleic acids according to claim 4, which is an isolated set of nucleic acids.
 6. A cassette or set according to any one of claims 3 to 5, further comprising a SARP binding site, a cinorf7 orf, a cinR orf, a cinK orf and a cinR1 orf.
 7. A cassette or set according to claim 6, wherein the SARP binding site is upstream of the cinorf7 orf
 8. A cassette or set according to claim 7, wherein the cinorf7 orf forms an operon with the cinA, cinM, cinX, cinT, cinH and cinY orfs.
 9. A cassette or set according to any one of claims 3 to 8, further comprising one or more orfs selected from the group consisting of cinorf3, cinorf4, smallorf, cinZ, cinorf8, cinorf9, cinorf10, cinorf11, cinorf12, cinorf13 and cinorf14.
 10. A cassette or set according to claim 9, wherein said one or more orfs include one of more orfs selected from the group consisting of cinorf4, smallorf, cinZ, cinorf8, cinorf9, cinorf10, cinorf11 and cinorf12.
 11. A cassette or set according to claim 10, wherein said one or more orfs include one or more orfs selected from the group consisting of smallorf, cinZ, cinorf8, cinorf9, cinorf10 and cinorf11.
 12. A cassette or set according to claim 11, wherein said one or more orfs include cinZ and/or cinorf8.
 13. A cassette or set according to any any one of claims 3 to 12, wherein any one or more of said orfs has, or each respectively has, a nucleic acid sequence which encodes a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence which is identical to, or a variant of, the corresponding amino acid sequence for said orf(s), as set out in FIGS. 7-27 (in part for cinorf3 and/or cinorf14).
 14. A cassette or set according to claim 13 wherein said variant amino acid sequence has at least 80% amino acid sequence identity with the corresponding amino acid sequence for said orf.
 15. A cassette or set according to any one of claims 3 to 14 wherein any one or more of said orfs has, or each respectively has, a nucleic acid sequence which is identical to, or a variant of, the corresponding nucleic acid sequence for said orf, as set out in FIG.
 4. 16. A cassette or set according to claim 14 or claim 15 wherein the cinA orf encodes the polypeptide sequence of FIG. 11, optionally with one or more amino acids of the propeptide sequence replaced with the amino acid found in the corresponding position in the propeptide sequence of duramycin A, B or C or ancovenin.
 17. A cassette or set according to any one of claims 3 to 16 further comprising regulatory sequences suitable for directing transcription and translation of the orfs in a host cell.
 18. A vector, or set of vectors, comprising, or together comprising, a cassette or set according to any preceding claim.
 19. An expression system comprising an expression cassette, set of nucleic acids, vector, or set of vectors according to any preceding claim.
 20. An expression system according to claim 19, which is a cell.
 21. An expression system according to claim 20, wherein the cell is a bacterium.
 22. An expression system according to claim 21, wherein the bacterium is an actinomycete.
 23. An expression system according to claim 22, wherein the actinomycete bacterium is a streptomycete.
 24. An expression system according to claim 23, wherein the streptomycete bacterium is S. lividans.
 25. A method comprising providing an expression system according to any one of claims 19-24 and culturing the expression system to express a nucleic acid of interest.
 26. A method according to claim 25, wherein the expression product is a lantibiotic.
 27. A method according to claim 25 or claim 26, further comprising the step of collecting the expression product from the expression system.
 28. A method according to any one of claims 25 to 27, further comprising the step of purifying the expression product.
 29. An expression product, produced according to the method of any one of claims 25-28.
 30. A method for producing a library of lantibiotic-producing host cells, the method comprising: providing a plurality of host cells respectively transformed with different nucleic acids, sets of nucleic acids, vectors or sets of vectors according to any one of claims 1-18; and, optionally, screening the cells for lantibiotic production.
 31. A method according to claim 30, further comprising screening the host cells for interesting and/or advantageous mutations compared to the naturally occurring cinnamycin biosynthetic cluster.
 32. A method according to claim 30 or claim 31 wherein the nucleic acids, sets of nucleic acids, vectors or sets of vectors differ in that they comprise different cinA orfs.
 33. A library of lantibiotic-producing host cells, produced or producible according to the method of any one of claims 30 to
 32. 34. A method comprising: providing a library of lantibiotic-producing host cells according to claim 33; and culturing said host cells under conditions suitable for lantibiotic production, thereby to produce a library of lantibiotics.
 35. A method according to claim 34 further comprising one or more steps of purifying the lantibiotics thus produced.
 36. A library of lantibiotics, produced or producible according to the method of claim 34 or claim
 35. 